Okay what the actual fuck man…I have no idea personally how on earth they got away with it but the only thing I could think of is the fact they made her look “older” I didn’t notice the actual age until I read the text which proves the point meaning it was harder for people only scanning the papers to notice/catch onto them being the age they were causing no action or anything really being done unless those readers knew or did their background research.
It makes me honestly question how many more cases there was of this back then that slipped under the rug, same with a lot of modern day ones too.