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Originally Posted by GioforPM
If the complainant, having already made her settlement, and being told it was not strong case to win (and undoubtedly warned about the likely defence tactics) wanted to see it through anyway, that suggests strongly to me that she was telling the truth and didn’t consent.
Why at other reason could she have to see it through other than to push for what she thinks was proper?
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I think there's a lot of reasons.
In my eyes the most probable one is shame or family - doing this in her eyes was easier than looking her parents in the eye and telling them she was out there that night. Regardless of the actual outcome of the court case, the family honor is maintained.
We might think that being cross examined and doing all this on the stand is terrible and noone would ever choose it, but in her shoes, the worse outcome could have been not going to trial and having their family disown them.
Again, I'm not saying any of this is true or false, but I don't think we can easily make statements like "what other reasons could she..." etc.