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In Britain, Rape Cases Seldom Result in a Conviction
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The defendant, who is unemployed, never took the stand. The teenager said he had told her he was 19; police later told her he was 28.
The girl said in an interview that the man invited her to his apartment. "He told me he wanted to get his dog to take on a walk," she said, covering her face. She had initially thought he was nice and kissed him. But then, she said, "he told me he would do something really bad to me" if she refused sex. "I couldn't push him off and I was trying really hard," said the girl, who weighs 90 pounds.
She said she wished police had interviewed someone at the local supermarket where she stood sobbing after the attack, or had asked to see the store's video surveillance tapes.
"This has made me a different person," she said, her voice fading and her brown eyes looking into the distance. "I was happy before. Now I am angry.
"I feel I didn't get justice. If I ever have kids and this happened to them, I wouldn't tell them to report it."
Researchers Jill Colvin and Karla Adam in London and staff researcher Robert E. Thomason in Washington contributed to this report.
