Well you see tracking down sex offenders is difficult. But persecuting under aged girls is much easier, so the police took that route. (I wish I was joking. But police are unbelievably bad at catching criminals)

https://ualr.edu/socialchange/2021/03/31/the-injustice-of-americas-rape-kit-backlog/#:~:text=It is estimated that there,a day%2C or a month…

The police can’t even be bothered to process rape kits so states just ban abortion to solve the rape problem in America.

Standard same old cop bullshit. They are too lazy to look for the actual bad guy so they try to make the victim (hey she’s right here already!) into a criminal they can charge with some crime, so they can pat themselves on the back as the great Heroes of the community.