I feel guilty

I am 41F and have a niece that is 29. We haven’t spoken in a long time, not for any particular reason, but I am visiting her and we stayed up pretty late talking the other night. We got to talking about my step brother that passed away and how I didn’t care that he was gone because he did inappropriate things to me when I was little. I never told anyone because I was embarrassed and I didn’t think anyone would believe me or do anything about it. She gasped and told me how he tried to get her to do stuff with him not too long before he passed away, knowing full well he was her uncle and he was married. I now feel so guilty, wondering that if I had said something back when I was younger, that he would have stopped. That maybe he would have left her alone. I am big on my own saying of “If you can’t change it or control it, don’t let it bother you” but this one has been eating me up.

Thank you for listening to me vent. I am not sad he is gone, I can only imagine what else he did that no one knew about and but at least now he can’t hurt anyone else.