The most important group of people to focus on here are the children who have been victims. If the organisation failed to involve the proper authorities (police, social workers) then they acted illegally and unethically. But the disclosure of unconfirmed allegations is wrong, not just because the accused who may be innocent can suffer, but more importantly so can the alleged victims in terms of the consequences of their names becoming public.

Victims of childhood sexual abuse experience often lifelong psychological torments of guilt and shame because a) perpetrators exploit and induce those feelings as part of the control and secrecy, and b) western societies give children fundamentally paradoxical messages about sex, which creates a culture that perpetrators can exploit for their own purposes in selecting and grooming victims.