Still trying to figure it out

🙁 I’ve known several people sexually abused by relatives (both by there own fathers). It always seems like the mother initially doesn’t believe them and I’ve no idea why.
One of the mothers eventually did realize it years later after her daughter’s suicide attempt and now is quite guilt-ridden that she let it go on so long. The friend told me her father laughed at her when he saw her lying on the floor with all the pills she had taken at vomited up beside her on the tile. Her parents split a little while after that. Just a few years ago, her father died. My friend was the only one who attended to his funeral. None of her siblings nor her mother came. She said it was one of the hardest things she’s ever had to do, but that she needed to do it, as if burying him would help her heal a little.
The other one I knew, the mother never believed her and she left home at a young age. When I met her in high school, she was living on her own and she was a year older than everyone because she had been held back a year. Her locker was always next to mine because they were assigned alphabetically and I would find her crying at times. She later kept getting involved with guys who beat her or used her as an emotional punching bag and was pregnant by the time she graduated. I lost track of her shortly after that but I know the baby ended up with her aunt.
To my knowledge, neither of their fathers were ever prosecuted.
I’m not a violent person in the least and have only thrown a punch in anger once in my life, but when someone treats women like that and abuses their own children, I really really want to be violent. It just really gets to me.
I’m sorry you are going through these feelings too.