If you had a 15 year old daughter who had been sexually assaulted against her will by a male, and you took your daughter over to the perpetrator's house to confront the father of that perpetrator, and the father said " I don't care if my 17 year old drunk son sexually assaulted your daughter as long as there was no physical harm"...what would you do in that situation?
If you're asking because of a personal experience, here's mine.
We filed a police report with the Mansfield TX PD. There was no sexual "penetration" of OUR 15 yr old daughter or other outward physical signs of abuse, just a very upset daughter with one other witness (her gf) who accurately corroborated about 90 percent of the same story.
Mansfield PD paid a visit to the boy's parents and had a sit-down with all three, and we were advised that we could pursue the matter legally but we decided it was best to let it drop, until a few days later when a couple of his buddies decided to make it an issue at school...the old "stuck up bitch if she doesn't put out / whore if she does" paradox...you know, lose-lose either way, right?
She secretly recorded some snippets of
"that business" with her phone and took it to the school principal.
Three kids were immediately suspended and the boy who committed the assault was expelled, and the school asked us if we could see our way to not getting local media involved, as they knew what I do for a living.
The whole thing consisted of the boy attempting to push her up against a wall and grope her while basically trying to force himself on her. She had kneed him in his "private area" which was apparently enough to stop him at least for the moment, whereupon she and her gf ran away. She came home shortly afterward, thus there was no DNA or anything else which could meet any legal standards.
The temptation to take matters into my own hands was very strong but I resisted.
About one of every five matters of this type, when both parties are minors, goes unreported, or if reported, goes unanswered, and almost half are dealt with inadequately.
My son, who is disabled, experienced a fair amount of bullying during his childhood and I came very close to doing things I would have regretted immediately, but again, I resisted. And I am indeed a firearm owner and all of this stuff did happen in Texas. To this day I question if I'd done right to stave off my urges to seek some street justice but the scenarios in my imagination never panned out with any overall positive results, no matter how satisfying it felt to think about them.
Both my kids feel today that it was better that I just fumed and steamed privately.
They know how much their parents love them, and they know we wanted to protect them.
Had there been ANY physical evidence, I definitely would have sought prosecution to the fullest extent of the law.
I do not know how well we would have fared, and I am just glad that they are both grown now.
My kids are pretty smart about this stuff today, I know that for a fact.
I hope we did right by them.