Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of sexual abuse.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
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Apply the same logic to the abuser. Disable them so they have a trauma to carry for life and tell them to forgive and forget.