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First, no revolution will fix everything. However it would improve it. Prisons do not protect against rape, including childrapes. Most of women do not sue for good reasons; most of cases are not studied, and even when they are, abusers are not condemned, and even in the last percent of case, when they are, a lot of times, this is not what the survivors wanted, and they is not protections for them.
I said their is good reasons to not do go to the police. The first one is obviously, cops would not file the complaint. The second one, is that cops often are violent at that time against the survivors. From time to time, people are molested or raped by cops. The 3rd one is the vast majority of cases, perpetrators are relatives; it means that suing them could break the social and affective circle of the survivors. This is exactly the opposite of their need.
A lot of this points are valid, even if the survivors is a child. A lot of child raped by their fathers, even after a complaint, will have to stay with him. If they would not, or someone make flee with them, cops would arrest them and make the child stay with his/her abuser.
In the end, this abuse are not condemn in the bourgeoisie. They is a few exceptions, but rape, including of children, are very common every where, but complaint are never seriously taken by cops. Epstein is the exception because he got arrested, but their is a lot of similar case around the world. Even some bourgeois that show off about having sex with minor at the TY with no persecutions.
My point is ; if you are afraid of a world of abusers not managed by society and that could abuse again, we are in this world.
The principle of a no states world would be : make decisions to minimize agressions, including those we, as a society, have to make. This is not an utopia, a lot of the time the 2 are related : legit violence in the name of the community increase other type of violence.
We learn how to do that now. In the solidarity network we make, those abuse exists, and we tried to deal with it. Sometimes in going to the police, sometimes not, depending of what is the need of the survivors. Sometimes we raise money, we include the survivors in some social circles. A lot of the time (again, when it is the need of the survivor), we exclude the abuser of the places she/he is used to go. We decide collectively if we would accept him in other places, depending of his situation and if he accept that he has abuse and want to change.
Their is not perfect solution, but their is a process to improve. And we could improve it in being in charge, so in getting the power back