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• I know it is mandatory to be gentle and loving towards a victim's wounds, but it seems obligatory to also encourage them to protect their community and themselves by not keeping company with someone sexually immoral (1 Corinthians 5:9), or an un-rehabilitated child rapist. It appears there is a requirement to confront people of their offenses. David the prophet would never have offered us the most profound repentance (Psalm 50) had he not been confronted by Nathan (2 Samuel 12). David needed to be confronted in order to repent. Confronting child rapists and encouraging victims to report them is in the best interest of the offender (helps them repent and prevents offending a little one (Matthew 18:6), the victim, (it helps them heal and not normalize perversion), and the community (protects future potential victims).