Thread by @ladyjessicahaze

Why do I celebrate that Mark Rivera is headed for prison?

Because abusers like Mark hold vulnerable people inside invisible prisons. They imprison souls, and they torture nervous systems. And the torture continues long after the direct sexual and emotional imprisonment is over.

https://twitter.com/alethiawrites/status/1604184255307055105

Putting abusers like Mark in prison is the only way, in the world as we know it, to keep them from torturing their victims inside invisible prisons.

As a middle-aged adult, my soul and nervous system were trapped inside Mark’s prison.

How much worse is that prison for a child?

One brave 9-year-old broke out of Mark’s prison before the rest of us, and blew the whistle. Every person who didn’t heed this call, me included, kept vulnerable people imprisoned longer.

Shame on all of us, and more shame on those who still don’t believe and support this child.

This amazing kid flipped the tables on Mark and sent *him* to prison.

We’ll never know how many other people she preemptively rescued from Mark’s regime of psychological, spiritual, and sexual torture.

But every @ChurchRez parent owes her and her family their undying gratitude.

And everyone who supported Mark instead of his victims enabled the psychological imprisonment and torture of children.

Don’t give me your justifications. Don’t center yourselves and your church as the real victims.

Re-examine your lives, grieve this evil, and repent.

#ACNAtoo