I’m particularly sensitive to this issue. From 1975-1985, my elementary school math teacher molested some 100 kids. I was probably one. I say probably because he housesat for a week for me and my brother, and was known for drugging his victims. He has access, and though my brother was his preferred target and I know he masturbated in front of him, I was probably a victim, too.
I also was the one after 10 years who blew the whistle by telling my mother when this monster masturbated in front of two friends.
Great! He was caught. So the reign of terror (that ended in suicides and one of my best friends drug addiction and OD) was over!
Nope! The school district paid him severance and released him quietly into the wild, to So Cal, where he set up shop again and raped more kids.
At minimum, that was the effect of the Acosta deal. More victims, more lives ruined. More addiction, and depression, and substance abuse.
These matters need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent, and the perpetrator and enablers held to account.