Abuse victims failing to cry out were deemed equally guilty with their attackers

Evidence

Conveniently, in his own writings Gothard had insisted that God had established “very strict guidelines of responsibility” for victims of abuse: if a woman failed to cry out for help, she was “equally guilty with the attacker.” — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 637

Categorization

• SEED: A doctrinal framework that structurally exculpates abusers and blames victims — an angle for examining how purity culture’s accountability codes preemptively defend the powerful.
• ADDENDUM: Directly supports the ‘On Sacrifice’ article’s theme of how patriarchal religious structures rationalize the harm they inflict.