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This happened a couple months ago and I've been letting her stay with me until her lease is up (today actually) and she can move into a new place since obviously there's no way she would want to go back into that apartment. It's frankly inhuman that the leasing office wouldn't let her break her lease. No one should be forced to go back to the place they were assaulted.
Even if he’s already going to jail for life, his other victims still deserve their day in court (if they want it). I hope this is something the victims decided and wasn’t pushed on them by the prosecutor. >

It seems that they believe there is no point since his federal prison sentences will keep him in jail for life. It still feels unjust to the victims, though. >

Yeah, this seems deeply uncool to them, unless they were for it. >

Some victims would definitely want to continue but I think there's many that don't.  Court is hell for the parties on both sides. The right to a vigorous defense means that even someone whose almost guaranteed to get convicted gets to basically tear apart any detail of your life on defense and even rape shield laws which are already constitutionally suspect don't actually protect you from as much as people think they do from watching law and order. 
Also even if one victim in a given subgroup wants to go forward, it could require subpoenaing others to testify depending on the case which would put them in an ugly position. >

Yep, a friend of mine went through testifying against her rapist when she was 19. It was so traumatic for her that a decade later when two men broke into her apartment and assaulted her the thought of having to testify if the cops found them made her decide to not submit to having a rape kit done. >

Wtf give that friend a hug. That’s horrible