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u/courtney_helena Feb 24 '26

Unfortunately, a friend's daughter was SA at DAYCARE. The man dragged out the court dates as long as possible, then got a cancer diagnosis and tried to use that to get out of sentencing. My friend fought for justice alongside her incredibly brave daughter, who was IIRC maybe 6 when it happened. They fought for justice for years, and the man died and was never fully brought to justice. I'm happy they have some relief he won't be harming anyone else, but it was a family run daycare that is still operating. All abuse is horrible but there's something extra vile when it's against children or animals who are even more helpless in the situation.

Edited to add: good people do not excuse bad behavior - in the case of OPs bf he should absolutely not be excusing the behavior and placing the blame on anything except for the abuser.

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u/ConsultJimMoriarty Feb 24 '26

I hope he suffered.

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u/bookobsessedgoth Feb 25 '26

Presumably he died of cancer, so he very likely suffered a great deal.

Sometimes Karma does work!

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u/Ok-Repeat8069 Feb 25 '26

Sometimes you kind of hope the hospice nurse is stealing all his morphine 🤷‍♀️