Excuse me for necro-ing this. i missed this, when posted, and only just stumbled upon it. It's a really puzzling case. It's hard to see how it's in anybody's interests to pursue it, isn't it? OK, so the girl is protected by anonymity, but the people close to her would know who she is. And unless they are completely stupid, she's likely to look bad in their eyes.
There's too little info there to come anywhere close to making a judement on anybody, IMO. And if we make judgements on the girl, on the basis of that report, I don't think that makes us any better than the people who decide that the guy must be guilty.
I've been stuck by a few possibilities that might (or might ) explain this thing:
Maybe he got the girl pregnant? And maybe it's only recently emerged who the father is? That would leave the girl with a lot of difficult questions to answer, and perhaps the possibility of her being the one in the dock? In any case, that would explain where the evidence is coming from.
She might not have wanted to pursue this thing at all, but she might have been pressured into it.
Also the thought strikes me that maybe the boy grew up to be a seriel offender? Maybe this is the only really solid case they have against him (however unsolid it looks from that report).
Or maybe there's a really weird situation there that nobody's guessed and nobody's ever going to guess.
Or maybe people are right when they declare that everyone involved is about-an-out bastard or drooling idiot, except for the accused. Wouldn't be the first time. But there's room to believe it's the other way round.
Have any more details emerged since this report?
-Walkie
was it something I said?