The only thing a perpetrator can do to help their victims is to TAKE ACCOUNTABILITY. Victims are gaslighted before the actual physical abuse even begins and continuously told they are lying to the point they just stop talking about it or go crazy.
To have your perpetrator or the people who witnessed your abuse ADMIT it happened is one of the few ways victims begin to heal. To know you aren’t crazy. You didn’t make it up. The mental/emotional scars are way heavier than the physical ones.