The neighbour thing reminds me: as a child, between the ages of 6-10, I was molested A LOT by my next-door neighbour, but I told my parents and we went through the police and court systems and stuff, and I was EXTREMELY terrified every night of going to sleep, cuz I was afraid that the molester would kill me in my sleep...
In the end, he received only 6 months house arrest and 3 months jail time I believe :') for basically screwing someone up in the head for life
Also, the jail time was only AFTER he molested me again (yes, they put the child molester on house arrest right beside the child he molested).