I would normally agree, but in this case it is a young teen. Plus there were ugly implications in posts about her and all that crap on SM. Dialogue might not have been positive. This girl needs positive. I wish I could wipe all that garbage off the internet.
There was a lot of garbage because everything that happened after her return was handled very poorly by the people in charge. I think they meant well, but their actions (or non-actions) just led to more speculation. There is no reason why A should have had to have gotten three of her own lawyers. She did that because the people in charge assumed that by being silent, people would ease off their speculation when in fact human nature dictates otherwise.
I know that the people in charge thought that they were protecting A by being secretive but here is the thing: people just
assume that when a teenage girl is kidnapped and held by a man that she was sexually assaulted. By their silence and very awkward answers to media questions, those handling this case insinuated that there was something more going on.
They are the ones who ruined much of the public's goodwill towards A. No, despite what so many have claimed the public wanted, I do not think the public wanted to hear the "dirty details". All they wanted was a very basic explanation as to what happened. Of course, everyone here can continue to shout that the public did not "deserve" answers, yada, yada, yada, and maybe that is true, but the end result is that it
really hurt A. I simply do not think that those in charge were thinking as holistically as they should have. Yes, legally speaking, they did everything well. But they should have thought a bit more outside the box. This is a special case and they should have treated it differently.
By the way: it was the authorities themselves who made it seem like A ran away. I get that was a tactic, but then they should have explained it was a tactic after the arrest. The reason a lot of people are "against" A, is because they believed LE and thought A ran away, which was exactly what LE wanted. They should have cleared that up as soon as they could. Again, these people have been horrible communicators and it has caused far more harm than good to A.