[Alaskan John]

Originally Posted by ern59

Also I notice in this video she mentions being poor more than a few times which suggests she may be looking toward civil action.

Or enough attenton to sell book and movie rights to her story, etc. Is she a genuine victim simply seeking redress for being wronged? Is she trying to "win the lottery" via a huge civil court award as a "victim" after willingly participating in or possibly even initiating sex with the boy? Is she trying to raise the public profile of her situation in hopes of attracting top shelf lawyers to pick up her case and run with it? Is she just trying to publicly humiliate the underachieving guy after he rejected her or refused to agree to some additional demands? (Underachieving - this case involves a guy old enough to have already graduated from college 3 years ago knocking boots with a girl who is just old enough to be a tenth grader in high school)! How involved was the girl's mother involved in creating rather than preventing the events now being examined, if money was the motive? Is she...? Did he...? Are they...? The list of possibilities could go on and on.

I think you make a very astute observation about the possibility of a money motive, and I am strongly inclined to agree that this is a very likely motive! But it's important to remember the amount of emotional charge presented by all the drama-rama, and to also remember that we are almost certainly NOT getting all the facts of the story. That makes it nearly impossible for us to know wih certainty what's motivating her and the identity of the true victim(s) in this story yet. Pronouncements to the contrary necessarily assume facts not yet available to us.