Offense doesn’t have levels to it

Why does Amy’s confession of her encounter with Mr. Granger make Alice think that it sounds like less of an offense?  How can ANYTHING about that be “less”?  It bothers me that people think that that type of offense has any ‘levels’ to it.  If someone crosses the line, that’s that.

I say this because a boy with down syndrome once hurt me.  But by the time I understood that I needed to tell someone, it had long passed.  Then people told me that there wasn’t anything I could do anyways, because the boy was mentally disabled.  But that doesn’t mean he hurt me any ‘less’.