That's why examining her background is a legitimate thing to do. This is not the first allegation of sexual assault we've ever seen against a wealthy sports celebrity. Sometimes there turns out to be a less-than-pure motive in making such an allegation. There was a woman sent to jail in Texas for making similar accusations concerning members of the Dallas Cowboys. It was her bad luck that somebody had a video camera running at the time.
We cannot dismiss out-of-hand the possibility that she is indeed doing this for attention or money. She might not be, but this is after all a famous individual with millions of dollars, and we have seen such things before.
So it is very reasonable to ask: is there anything about this woman that suggests an ongoing propensity to seek fame, or attention, or money? Well, let us count the ways. Cheerleader. Drama queen. Tried to get on American Idol. Pulled the old "Look at me! I'm killing myself" stunt.
Yeah, this is an attention-seeking drama queen. Maybe she was raped. But maybe this is just another attention-seeking drama queen shtick. I pity the jury trying to sort that out.
If there had been a wide gap between the time of the alleged assault and the reporting of the incident, I may tend to agree. But once the complaint is filed, the accuser can't have the charges dropped if Kobe secretly agreed to pay her off. This isn't a shakedown civil suit. Now, maybe she did make this up and didn't realize that there was no chance at money of she filed a criminal complaint, but who knows. Personally, I don't know if he did it, and hope he didn't. But if there is physical evidence of force, I think he is sunk. These stories and "dirt" on the accuser wont matter IMO, even if they are allowed(which most wont be).
Well, Nick, if Kobe is found "not guilty" then we can dissect her. But for now SUPPOSE her allegations are true... then she was already raped once, why should the media do it to her again? She didn't have a press conference to announce what happened.
Maybe the media should not be in this at all, but Kobe is a media personna, and loss of privacy is part of the price HE pays for the money he makes.
There is a good chance that her background is irrelevant, anyway. If there are bruises and abrasions consistent with the tears in her clothes, and the DNA matches, and the security cam in the hotel hall and witnesses from work corroborate her -- then it is obvious that he did it, and there is absolutely no reason to subject the girl to more than she has already been through.
People like sinkspur will then be reduced to claiming that she told him she liked it rough and he obliged, just to be a nice guy. Which is just absurd when they only had contact for such a brief time.
The vaginal tears -- internal ones could be from Kobe having giant noble hero penis diameter of a baseball bat as some have claimed, but tears to the skin at the entrace and the labia are from no lubrication, which means she REALLY wasn't "aroused" which means she REALLY didn't want to have sex with him. They can tell the difference.
So then sinkspur will claim that she came up, told Kobe "Quick, I don't find you sexually arousing, but I like rough sex, so throw me down and rough me up and do me anyway. But make it fast, I gotta go!"
And the rest is history...
Unlike other cases, here we know that hard evidence exists, we just dont know what it is yet. When it comes out, if it convicts Kobe, then those who have smeared or badgered this girl's character here on this forum will be rightly shamed.