I understand your anger...sexual cases can be very aggravating. My uncle, who molested me off and on for months when I was 11 got away with it. He was put in jail, luckily, for another crime and breaking his parole so to speak by being around me--- apparently I wasn't his first little girl. There was never a trial, no-one ever talked to me about it past me standing up and admitting it TWO YEARS later....it became sort of that awkward conversation no-one wants to bring up and everyone basically told me to just forgive and forget. Taking him to trial would be too much trouble.
Since no-ones helped me by talking about it, since they wanna just forget it, it's become my dirty little secret that only I constantly worry and think about.
My uncle used to send me letters that scared me, since to him we were actually in love or something over that summer, and he thought once he got out he'd come marry me. -_- But I asked them to stop letting him send me letters and at least that was a step in the right direction....now I'll only let him talk to me ever again if it's to apologize. My own family is much more forgiving, they visit and talk to him all the time, and pray for him to get out.
It's just really hurtful to me that everyone wants me to forget it and they wanna forget it too, to play it off like it didn't matter...hurt really builds up...
That's what brings me to what you told me...you and her should take some form of action. If this issue is incredibly important to you, and you feel that rage inside your heart, you have to do something. Beat his *** up yourselves, ruin his reputation by telling everyone he knows what he did, tell the teachers or the parents, particularly his parents, come up with ways to really hurt him and make him pay.
I do suggest going to police, and ORDERING them to do something. Rape is a crime and they NEED to think of it as such. After all, if boys can go to jail for straicitory rape when the woman was to blame, why aren't they going to jail for real rape, where it is their fault? You can take the police to court if they refuse to take action.
The reason I suggest taking action is you and your friend don't want to end up like me, hauling this dirty little secret around, letting it grow and hurt you more over the years. The fact that my family never did anything, that I never did anything, makes a painful weight I have to carry around all the time....and years later now it feels too late to do anything....I'm stuck with the weight.