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I do work for a local Beagle shelter that gets a lot of dogs that were unfortunately abused. I can only speak from what I've seen. Many of the dogs that come in that have been abused never truly recover. Even though they can function in a household with normal people, they never again act like a regular dog. They take a long time to trust someone and are scared to death of strangers. Some other dogs are fine though and you wouldn't know they had been abused, while others are so badly damaged that it's only humane to put them down.
In any event, whether the animal recovers mentally is beside the point. We don't hold the consequences of a rapist to that of how well the victim recovers. The kid is a sick individual and the world would be better off without him polluting our gene pool.
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