Where I'm from, there's an option to prosecute someone even if the victim doesn't want it to happen. If the crime is heinous enough, or the victim has been so badly abused they've shut down their own sense of worth, or going after the perpetrator means protecting the public.
I could go either way on this. I don't know her well enough to guess what her reasoning is, but I think it does matter.
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I could go either way on this. I don't know her well enough to guess what her reasoning is, but I think it does matter.