That's a bit different from your initial post.  Filing charges is hardly "forgiving"...it is making someone accountable for their behavior.  Forgiveness or the lack of it is another issue...I've worked with kids who have been sexually abused and it can, quite literally, ruin someone's life.  How about reading of the life of Neil Goldschmidt's victim...... how about realizing just how despicable pedophilia is and asking yourself....if this happened to my young daughter would I find it easy (or even possible) to forgive the perpetrator?  I'm a "nice" guy, but, rest assured, I'm not "that nice a guy."  Gary Crum