Yes Leslie that is how it was portrayed in the movie as well, she had been a prostitute since she was 13, she told her parents about the rape and they did not believe her, when she was 7 yrs old, and her father beat her for it. Disgusting, I know not everyone who has a bad childhood turns out to be a murderer, but you can understand a little from her horrible background why these things happened,still that does not comfort the family of her innocent victims, whose only crime was to go to a prostitute.

like I said a very moving story.