General Discussion

Not sure if you know this, but It's hard to get a conviction decades after the fact, especially considering how hard it is to get a rape conviction in the first place. The victim testified under oath that Rose started contacting her when she was 14 and he was in his 30s.

The vast majority of rapists don't. Rapes tend to not get reported, and people who were assaulted as teens -- especially decades ago -- might not realize they were assaulted until decades later.

It's clear on this board, though, that people are comfortable with legal ambiguity when it comes to whether someone needs to be convicted and sentenced for rape in a court of law before people describe those actions as rape or the person as a rapist.

The two of them agreed to an undisclosed settlement, fwiw.

Interesting, you said you didn't care, and here we are!