By your argument, the girl's family are not the victims as they are taxpayers and presumably, voters.
Even if you're going to blame the voters for not intuiting that their voted official is corrupt and going to do future dastardly deeds or being at fault for a police officer that was hired and not elected, I don't feel your logic fits here. Unless you just mean that everyone is at fault, always and for everything until they are the unlucky ones at which time they are victims and no longer to blame.
I think that's a great way to handle this. The guilty party should have their lives or at the very least, financial wellbeing ruined just as they ruined another family's.