OK I'm back
During my root canal (I had to occupy myself with somethign to distract me) I was thinking again.
Few of these men have only 1 victim. I believe the average of those who are caught is in the 70's before they are stopped. He has admitted this 1 to you doesn't mean there aren't others, perhaps many others.
I have this odd feeling that he told you for a reason. Perhaps to unburden his guilt. But what if he wants to be reported?
I truly believe these men understand on one level that they have committed a crime and a sin against an innocent child. Otherwise why lie about it? They know it is wrong and THEY will pay if caught. Why keep it a secret all these years? He knows what he did is wrong.
Years ago when I confronted my father about his abuse he answered "If you think I'm going to apologize, you're crazy". He didn't deny it. He didn't justify it. In fact he acted as if he had a perfect right to abuse me and there was nothing wrong with what he did.
But when I was young, he used every manipulative tool he could to silence me - I would be blamed and go to reform school, no one would believe me, he would hurt someone I loved, it would hurt my mother, he would kill me. He knew he couldn't risk being caught so silenced me. And my silence allowed him to continue his abuse of me.
Later on I found out he had possibly raped my friend's 5-yr old sister. Later I also learned he was stalking a young girl and went on to become a school crossing guard
By the time I learned all this he was disabled and restricted to home so was no threat to people on the outside but I sure made it known to all the family that he was a danger.
If he wasn't dead now I would do everything to make sure he was on the child abuse registry..