“is that all you learned from the story?”
Of course not. Teshuvah is a given, wether its something as “minor” as getting into a fender-bender, or something as shocking as this. Needless to say, the severity of the “potch” is meant to alert us as to the extent we need to get our act together.
But in the nuts and bolts end of things, the same way a fender-bender is a wake up call to drive more carefully in bad weather or be fully rested before getting behind the wheel, when something bad happens to a child, we (as parents and as society) need to take a closer look at how we are managing our children.
I can tell you first hand, molestation has dramaticaly dropped in certain circles. Why? Because parents took the warnings seriously, schools / campls enacted safety measures to make sure that kids are not left vunerable. Has it been totally eradicated? Sad to say, no. Are certain kids more vunerable than others?
Sad to say, yes.
Its our job to make sure our kids are not vunerable.