The World has not Changed Much

I was reading an article in a German magazine about a famous person. I read that she was raped by a neighbour when she was just eleven. I should not have understood the next sentence because it had two words critical to its understanding that were not in my vocabulary. But, I did, without even thinking about it.

It said that the police accused her of having seduced the rapist.

I could understand that  because the story has not changed, since then.

That was the year 1926.

A helpless child was raped.

A helpless child who was poor was raped.

A helpless child who was poor and belonged to a minority was raped.

And she was blamed.

The world has not changed much.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday
http://www.spiegel.de/einestages/billie-holiday-100-geburtstag-der-jazz-saengerin-a-1026624.html