If he is seeking justice for someone else.....without positive proof, then perhaps it's not his place to snoop. A quiet way of a little heads up maybe?
Definitions of retribution on the Web:
a justly deserved penalty the act of correcting for your wrongdoing vengeance: the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life; "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"--Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution" wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Repayment, fiscal or moral; often used as a synonym for karma in human affairs. A tendency exists to apply the word specially to the seemingly bitter aspects of karma, as being the so-called punishment for evildoing; and reward is commonly applied to that aspect of karma which brings forth happy, pleasurable, and elevating factors in human life. See also KARMA http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/etgloss/red-roos.htm
I told my best friend (newton) that her boyfriend was cheating on her. She told me to f off and didn't talk to me for about 6months.
I loved her and told her out of love
she knew he was a slime and was trying to save face
she is my best friend i love her we have been friends for (OMG) 17 years...best friends...soul sistahs...except for that 6 mths when she hated me for knowign the truth that she wasn't strong enough to leave. But I still loved her.
I don't knwo what my point was...I just dealt with a moronic student screaming at me for being abitch and not bringing her 18.6% up to a passing grade.
BTW Billy - from my H's perspective, he wishes someone would have told him how badly I was feeling but only one of my friends knew and I don't think even SHE knew the extent of how I felt.....and I doubt if she had, that she would have said something to him - as she felt she was my friend and listening to me ya know?
Don't know where I was going with that either but there you go.
....Understand, that I can't, not be what I am I'm not the milk, and Cheerios in your spoon ~ Avril Lavigne ~ ..."Nobody's Fool"...
The thing is once you let the cat out of the bag, it can't go back in. But under the right circumstances, you always have a chance to help your friend.