What do you mean it has NOW emerged???
Nobody pointed that out at the time???
As with the recent brouhaha at Smith College, where a student of color FALSELY accused several low-paid campus workers of racism and the College immediately leapt to the accuser's defense and suspended one financially struggling worker and subjected others to pitiless anti-white indoctrination, the usual thing is for any anti-Westerner to make a lurid, hate-filled accusation, at which time all Westerners must collapse in abject horror and confessions of unforgivable evil intent.
My guess is that, because God Almightly puts a conscience into all His creatures, this young girl began to suffer pangs of guilt, cried many tears and spent many sleepless nights, knowing she had caused the death of an innocent man who may have also been a husband and father, and who may have been kind to her in the past, until she somehow let the truth come out.