Reply #55: The point is, I believe most people think there is a difference in degree

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

of a rape of a grown woman vs. a child. Granted it is just a difference in degree but that's why there's often distinctions in law of child molestation vs. rape etc.

So repeatedly calling her a "woman" after revelation of the fact that she was indeed a girl gives the appearance, whether deserved or not, that the U.S. media is trying to lessen the degree of the crime, or the outraged engendered thereby, in the minds of the American public.