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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
Really...are we going to question the decision making of a potentially abused pre-teen?
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Yes we sure are. Question the (alleged) victim with a strong element of blame. "If it happened once, she should have just left." Perhaps if she was 12 she was terrified to tell anyone, including her parents. And the prospect of not babysitting for them meant she would have to explain a valid reason for giving up the gig. Maybe her parents were friends with the Riberios. It could have been a number of reasons. But yeah. Lots of 12 year olds cook up extortion plots and then bide their time for 5 or 6 years before lowering the boom on the guy to "cash in".
Also sorry Flameswin but I disagree that "because the police didn't press charges" the story is fishy. Look at the Duggar family. No charges there and the Duggar brother fully admits he abused multiple victims including family members (I'm being generous with the use of past-tense, there). If she waited a year (or more) to come forward and got an unsympathetic cop, maybe that's all there was to it.
But really. Who knows. Innocent until proven guilty and all that. And none of us were there and none of us have all the details of the case from both sides.