It’s the all too common story of a runaway turning to prostitution. Somehow she ended up on the Park Avenue side instead of the street side of it.
I agree with you, there are probably some strong and even sinister forces that influenced her.
"The poor stupid helpless defenseless 22-year-old little girl must be protected from her own choices for her own good," right?
"Now why is it that man can hold woman to this high code of morals, like Caesar's wife - not only pure but above suspicion - and so surely and severely punish her for every departure, while she is so helpless, so powerless to check him in his license, or to extricate herself from his presence and control? His power grows out of his right over her subsistence. Her lack of power grows out of her dependence on him for her food, her clothes, her shelter."
-- Susan B. Anthony, 1875.