You have done exactly the right thing, without question.
Anyone who has not experienced sexual predation or assault, especially in childhood, has no idea how forcefully, viscerally, and destructively it resonates throughout one's lifetime, and therefore there is no ground on which to declare this better left in the past.
I won't go on, here, at the length I'm tempted to; except to mention how stunned I was to see the statistic of age 52 as the average age of when child sex abuse victims begin to talk about it. That was exactly true for me, and it was too late to do anything about it.
For that reason alone, to lift the terrible veil of secrecy, fear, and collusion - and, thus, to bring that age of reckoning down significantly - publishing the piece was essential. Thank you.