Take some fucking responsibility!

[Mermaid]

In the bad old days, rape victims used to be publicly identified by the media. Thank goodness those days are (for the most part) gone.

It's not exactly a mystery that publicly shaming the victims leads to under reporting.  I doubt that wasn't known in the bad old days.

The way victims tend to be treated in the courtroom - even these days - is bad enough.

And in this case, there were eyewitnesses to the crime and the rapist was actually convicted, (which is infinitesimally rare) and this happens anyway. I will choose to be optimistic about it and see the fact that basically everyone is outraged by this man and his father and the light sentence, and that the victim was able to so eloquently state her mind to the rapist and is getting the support of the public.
It's one of those rare cases where she isn't universally blamed or doubted. The rapist swears she wanted it, the court and the rapist blame alcohol, but the public isn't buying it. This is an undeniable, glaringly obvious example of rape culture with a good healthy dose of white privilege thrown in, and it's basically impossible to deny.