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Why didn't she tell her husband!


Why didn't Amy tell her husband that she had been raped once he got home? Two men raped her in her own home and she didn't tell him!

Something could have been done instead of it ending up in disaster like it did. I don't know of any wife that wouldn't tell her husband after that ordeal!

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this is something I cant figure it out.she is tv star, she looks very confident.we are talking about two rapes.those happens at her house.her husband definitely would support her.there is no reason she hides two rapes.this is not plausible at all.
my question is why she exposes herself to the guys at the roof? does she want to punish her husband?

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She wouldn't tell him because secretly she enjoyed being raped.

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That town was very small, conservative, and male dominated; especially with the football team's local legacy.

She saw immediately once upon returning nothing has changed. She left town for Hollywood then returned with her wealthy LA yuppie husband. She was no longer their local girl. For her to report the rapes would have brought more intimidation down on them.

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It was being suggested that he had gun experience and his behavior was pretty weird. She probably though that it wouldn't end well and anyway she had some weird attachment to her home place and old 'friends'.
So if she had told him, he probably tried to kill them and not call the cops and that would end in a massacre she didn't want for both sides.

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I wouldn't blame her for not telling him. Why tell him? If you wanted justice then telling the cops made more sense. But since she told neither it sounded like she was probably too ashamed. I can't say i can totally relate but i imagine it cannot be easy. There was also probably some guilt in that being raped by the first guy there seemed to be some ambiguity as she did not struggle quite as vigorously as with the second guy.

In this case she got her revenge.

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Many women don't tell anyone after being raped. Some times it takes them years to open up.

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Like any other rape victim, she is ashamed, guilty and disgusted with herself plus she fears what they would do to her and her husband. In a way she was trying to protect them.

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