[emma01]

Well if he raped her and pleads guilty, then he's a rapist and should be charged, like anyone would be, regardless of whether the victim is alive or not.
If the charges are dropped, then we will never know the truth, either he is innocent, and then fair enough, he should not be charged. Or he is lying, and did rape her...either way we will never know and we can't do much about it. Let's just hope if he did do it but isn't charged, he lives a horrible horrible life knowing what he did. We can just hope that if he did do it, he will admit it.
Its really sad, I so agree, but he has to be treated like everyone else, and that is innocent until proven guilty. Maybe he didn't do it. Could have been someone else who threatened the girl that he would do something bad if she told the truth. We don't know what actually happened.