The danger is that the people responsible will lock arms, walk away, and do it again because their power in solidarity was great enough that they could just deny it all and uphold their narrative. If they are all trapped together looking down the barrel of criminal charges, that's what they are likely to do and get away with it.

Revenge doesn't really get us anything. What we need is confession of what has happened, and direction of ensuing public outrage toward building checks and balances to ensure that it never happens again.