The real problem is our abysmal treatment of sex crimes, not believing victims, rape kit backlogs, etc.

The focus exclusively on dealing with crimes and violations after the fact ignores that even successful prosecutions of sex crimes do not heal or undo the trauma those crimes cause the victims in the first place. In fact, the process of reporting such crimes & going through the forensic physical exams - being internally probed, having every inch of your body including your "private parts" photographed in high def & magnified, having your pubes combed, for example - the forensic interviews (telling your story again & again to different people), the investigation(s), the long, drawn-out, nerve-wracking legal processes of prosecution and the experience of having to face one's abuser in court often only add more trauma on top of the victims' original trauma.

Also, many of us who have been raped and assaulted find that even many decades later we are still dealing with the negative after effects, and this can happen even when we've had years of therapy and thought we'd put all that pain behind us. In old age, or times of very poor & precarious health, traumas experienced in early life often rear their heads again in wholly unexpected ways.

Why would you have so many girls & women suffer so much pain and trauma when the proverbial ounce of prevention of standard safeguarding measures could so easily spare us many of these experiences?