Can I Sue A Pedophile?

Location: Georgia, USA

In December of 2025, My 15yo daughter was asked by a local store owner to help clean his store for 2hrs a day on the weekends for $20 a day cash. So she asked my wife and i if she could, and I went and had a talk with him about it. After speaking with him for awhile about it i felt like it was ok and my daughter was old enough to start learning how to make money and handle the responsibilities of having a job. My daughter has very bad adhd and odd, so keeping her busy usually helps her stay out of trouble. She helped him for about 3 weekends when he cornered her in the cooler and sexually assaulted her, he held her against her will and began taking her clothes off. I won't go into the explicits here but she was not raped. She got away from him and came home immediately. She told us that for the last couple of weekend he had been acting "weird " said that he wanted her to come into the cooler with him right before she started work and hug, he also started showing her porn on his phone. She didn't let us know any of this prior to the sexual assault. I asked her why she didn't tell us about all the red flags sooner and she said that he had been giving her alcohol and vapes and that she was afraid of getting into trouble. I reported him to the County sheriff's department and the investigator took my daughter's statement and he was arrested about 5 days later. On the day of his arraignment about 3 weeks later I was told by the investigator that he confessed and everything in my daughters statement was confirmed. The Judge denied his bond and he is currently in jail awaiting sentencing. My daughter was having problems with professionally diagnosed adhd and odd prior to this situation, but her mental state has gotten really bad since the incident, she has since tried to take her own life and had to be sent to a mental health facility for a week. she started crisis therapy but its not helping and we may need to seek further assistance. I don't know alot about the old man who she worked for except for what my daughter has told me and that he manages several stores for the Marathon group. I've contacted a few lawyers but they don't seem to be very interested, most of them say that either its not their kind of law or they dont service our area. Ive never filed a lawsuit against anyone so i have no idea the path i need to take here. If you guys can help me or at least point me in the right direction, I would be very greatfull. Thankyou.