My daughter is almost 17 and we are currently going through a rape case with her. She told me that her boyfriend (18) raped her and let his friends rape her. We went to the hospital and they did a rape kit on her. She's been depressed and his family had made a smear campaign against her. Her boyfriends dad is a preacher and someone told me that last Sunday he was preaching about the "false" allegations against his son and to never believe a woman who shows off skin for anyone who isn't her husband. He's referring to my daughter because he scolded her for wearing a bikini in the summer. That family has been saying my daughter is a whore and that she cheated which she didn't, with one of her friends who is a male and started a rumor that she has had sex with my step son. Also never happened. They've went out of their way to make her seem not credible. Some teenage boys egged our house and wrong whore in a marker on our door. I know people will say to move but that's not really possible. It's not easy for everyone to just get up and move unless I just send her to live with her dad.

But she went with my step son to the convenience store and some teenage boys were loitering. They called her names. She admitted she bit back because she was over it. She told me she told them to stop blaming her that their dad's hide little boys in their basement (the whole young boys, Catholic priest stuff, although they aren't Catholic so it didn't make sense). One boy spit in her face and grabbed her by her shirt. My step son hit him and it became a huge fight. It was 6 against 2 so obviously my kids got hurt. My step son got more hurt because his head was slammed to the ground and when his head started bleeding they took off. We took him to the hospital and pressed charges.

I don't know how to help her besides get her therapy because she's several depressed and blames herself for her step brother getting hurt.

@K we really can't just move. We don't have the money to. We bought this home less than a year ago and are on a 30 year mortgage and all the court stuff is down here.