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Originally Posted by Hackey
Couldn't tell you a single thing about any of them. People remember the celebrity not the victim. If your excuse for letting a rapist walk is your afraid your name will be trashed that sounds awfully flimsy to me.
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Unless of course you're family, friend, co-worker, prospective employer, potential date or casual acquantince who decides to google the name. You know people who actually matter to the victim.
Having to relive the event, and then be discredited by a lawyer who's plan of attack is to make you out to be a lying slut is an unfortunate, but certainly reasonable, reason not to want to take the stand.
There's been no real evidence and a vast number of anonymous people have called her a gold digger, accused her of being a drunk hussy, jersey chaser, and any other number of victim-blaming stereotypes. So it's not going to get better for her when the lawyer drags up every indiscretion they can find and confront her with it. And all this with out any reassurance that anything actually happens to her attacker. Of course that's if she was telling the truth.
The reverse is true with Kane, he's been called a rapist by a vast number of anonymous internet users without any evidence. He'll be confronted and questioned and made to look like a monster by the prosecutor. He'll have his name dragged through the mud and the potential to be locked away.
There's reasons for both sides, regardless of their innocence, to want to settle.