Toespi said this on the thread that was just locked:
This situation has been handled privately some time ago. There was going to be a charge made against Kerry by this girl and her parents. A cash settlement was agreed upon with the caveat that if it was ever leaked by the parties the agreement would be null and void and the cash settlement would be returned because of breech of contract.
The release of the girl's statement today, after some UK papers wrote yesterday that a TV interview had been done leads me to believe that some serious negotiating went on last night, and the I don't think the Kerry's were calling the shots.
Sounds to me like someone on the girl's side may have known what they were doing.
longjack
She says she's been in Kenya since October. That should be easy enough to verify. The taped interview supposedly happened over Christmas. Now, I'm sure there are TV studios in Kenya, but no such circumstance was mentioned in the narrative to this point. I and most people were envisioning ABC doing the interview in their studios in the US and her leaving the country later, presumably after getting a bad case of the Fear of God. Just now that story threatens not to work.