Somehow my response did not get posted - or I cannot find it. I am so sorry for the impression that I gave!  
I was thinking of a situation I know where a mother reported abuse of her child by a priest and  few people supported her, even when it became known that a member of the hierarchy warned the priest that the police were on their way to arrest him so presumably evidence could be destroyed.

Why didn't we show more support for this hurting family when the news broke? Why didn't we demand action?  I wish I had stood on the church steps with a protest sign, I wished that there was some way to withhold donations until the church showed some accountability and remorse. 

 I think that the hierarchy used the lack of response from the townspeople to delay any action.  So I blame myself being a guilty bystander and doing nothing.   The courts did the right thing and placed the offender in prison. The mother who took on the church against all odds and her child are the heroes here.