Elagabalus , the man built bombs !  Most young people would know how serious that is .
He terrorized people and refuses to honor the court judgment of monetary compensation .
Youthful lapse in judgment ?  
Forgiveness does not preclude his ( as Judge Judy would say ) his making the victims of his lousy behaviors ...   whole  .  And how clever of him to withhold from church authority his past history .  
My parents repeatedly suffered assaults against their person .  They forgave but it destroyed the final decades of their lives .  They were not vindictive .  
A perps ' crimes are not erased by the victim's forgiveness  .