Why do historical abuse allegations come out of the blue?

It should be ovbious. When someone has been intimately abused and has decided that it's in their best interests to not make that person an enemy, their death changes that. Victems who are abused generally are afraid. I know I am. I don't think I would be comfortable sharing until such time as that abuser can no longer do anything to me. If someone hurts you, when they have no reason to do so then you aren't especially going to be inclined to give them an actual reason to harm you. That's basic self preservation. Unless you know for fucking sure that by making a police report or whatever that you will absolutely be belived and thst person will absolutely be behind bars (which many intimate crimes have 0 guarentee of) many victims are not inclined to put themselves in a situation where someone who already abuse them are incentivised to make their lives even fucking worse. In high profile cases as well esp with well known people. Folks don't always realise they are not alone. Did you sleep through me too? And they really do not want to stand alone against powerful folks who already hurt them. Nobody wants to become public enemy because they went public and stood alone against a whole fucking bunch of arseholes stans attacking them too. Victims don't really want any of that. However once the floodgate opens and they see that look those people can talk about what happened to them and they aren't getting all of the backlash. That's very freeing. They can speak too. There is safety in numbers and safety in seeing how the path leads before you walk down it. Being the first person is always the hardest. Once someone has spoken out, say because the bastard is dead and can't hurt them anymore, it becomes much much easier for others to do the same. Folks always act like being afraid in a situation that makes sense to be afraid is odd. Or that not being afraid anymore because the person that scared you is too dead to hurt you is also bizzare. It's really not. In fact it's common sense. The person who harmed me. They are leaving me alone. I escaped with my life and I have absolutely 0 intention whatsoever of bringing my existance back to their attention. I do not need my plastic front door kicked in and me being stabbed to death while I sleep thanks and I have no fucking intention at all of giving them any reason to be angry enough at me to do that. My understanding is they have forgotten about me. That's what I want. I also don't want a bunch of folks knowing intimate details of what happened. Judging my choices, talking shit, treating me differently or being dicks to me because they think I'm some sort of shit stirring liar who just crawled out of the woodwork. I have no evidence, like many who have been intimately abused. It's one person's word against another. I would only be willing to expose myself to that person's anger again if it was impossible for them to lash out and hurt me. The only situation where that will come to pass is when they are dead. Personally even when they die, I will still keep it to myself. It's a painful thing to talk about and I really don't want to talk about it in any level of detail really. Especially not with people who know me, or people who care about me. It would break my mothers heart. For what good? Why would I upset myself and the people I love when nothing is to be gained by it. But for others it's freeing. They finally feel safe enough to get that shit off their chest.