They wanted money as compensation and various other things, which they received, but did not attempt to become multi millionaires on the back of their misfortune.
@Plumtree391
What a wicked thing to say.
It's not 'misfortune' for starters.
It's a criminal act perpetrated by powerful men against someone they never dreamed would ever have the courage or the ability to fight them, relying as they did on their power and prestige, on their money, and above all on the attitudes of people like you who like to keep such crimes 'private', thus placing crimes involving sex in a separate category from every other crime to enable them to keep on exploiting the young and the vulnerable and the powerless.
You can call your attitude 'I prefer to keep such things private', and imply that there is some virtue in that all you like, but what your approach does is allow the threat of damage to reputation to continue exerting power over women. The damaged goods reputation used to be a ticket to penury and ostracism for girls and women. In Ireland, even a hint of it could result in a young woman being committed indefinitely to a magdalene laundry.
As long as there are people believing that 'keeping it private' is the way to deal with this, and believing the associated assumption, as you do, that women who come out publicly are shameless hussies who are only looking to enrich themselves, the stigma will retain its power over victims of crimes involving sex and the truth of the crime will never be properly seen and understood by society at large.
Vulnerable victims will always be seen as somehow complicit in the abuse they suffered.
Predators will always be seen as co-victims.
The powerful, and even the not-so-powerful but still enjoy the privilege of being male in our disordered society, will get away with their crimes.