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Yeah, this situation seems similar to battered wife's syndrome as in the excuse-making and denial it seems to make.
I think that if women realize that it is happening, but don't do anything to prevent it, they start becoming accessories to child molestation or what have you. That doesn't mean they aren't also victims.
I think Willravel touched on why they stay. Admitting that someone you trusted so much was so twisted seems to be really hard for some to do. People who have a prediliction to molest might also be drawn to people they can emotionally blackmail like that. I've heard stories of molestors and rapists having their wife as a helper and accomplice who lures victims to the attacker.
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