Good Question

Screenwriter-director Lionel Chetwynd wonders aloud (video, about 7'45" in) : "What if it was Father Polanski who surfaced 32 years later; a Catholic priest who abused a 13-year old, not a film maker? Man, they would all be swooping down on him, they couldn't wait to beat up on the Catholic priest 32 years later."

But don't you see? That follows the narrative.