I too understand and have compassion for someone who has been abused, but that compassion is compromised when they act out on the next generation.

My misogynist predatory pedophile father was dropped onto a hard kitchen floor right on his head when he was an infant. I'm sorry he got dropped. I'm sorry he got hurt.

Then when he was 5, his penis got infected and his Mom entertained her female friends by making him whip it out to show the booboo. I'm sorry if either and/or both of these incidents caused him to crack.

But, when he became an active abusive pervert. He should have been locked up til he died. With therapy, meds, whatever, but, locked up forever.

My prayer is that one day, somehow, someway, something will click and all perps will suddenlly connect with the broken part in themselves with what they are doing to others, and feel and understand the damage they have done, and be devastated by this awareness and have to live with that knowing, up front in their minds, for the rest of their lives. Now, that would be hell. Let 'em burn some karma in this lifetime......