She was two weeks shy of her 14th birthday (the age of consent in Germany, Austria and Italy today) and has testified that she had been sexually active for years prior to that day. She described the situation as “I was a drug-doing Lolita who had cornered him,”.
Today in the USA, the age of consent ranges from 16 to 18. At the time of that incident, some states still had the age of consent set at 12.
According to Wikipedia: "the age of consent has widely varied across the country in the past. In 1880, the age of consent was set at 10 or 12 in most states, with the exception of Delaware where it was 7. The ages of consent were raised across the U.S. during the late 19th century and the early 20th century. By 1920 ages of consent generally rose to 16-18 and small adjustments to these laws occurred after 1920. As of 2015 the final state to raise its age of general consent was Hawaii, which changed it from 14 to 16 in 2001.
Age-of-consent laws were historically only applied when a female was younger than her male partner. By 2015 ages of consent were made gender-symmetric.[5] Until the late 20th century many states had provisions requiring that the teenage girl must be of previous "chaste character" in order for the sexual conduct to be considered criminal. In 1998 Mississippi became the last state to remove this provision from its code."