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Why? There isn't much known about her. Do you know of anything suggesting she staged this ?
I'll grant you that there's a lot of spurious crap out there, but why dismiss charges
That seems pretty odd but then I'm not a criminal lawyer. Maybe a pattern of dragging unpromising cases before dismissing them just before they're due to happen makes a lot of sense in the context.
IIRC it's pretty common to drag spurious cases on and on in the hopes the defendant takes a plea bargain and then blink at the last minute. The spicy incident is probably just coincidence.
I am entirely willing to believe that a somali who gave a 16 year old runaway from foster care a ride back to his place from a gas station was not honestly concerned with getting her out of the rain. That is not, however, the legal standard(if I had to guess what actually happened she agreed to go back to his place and have sex with him in exchange for -whatever- and then decided the deal wasn't to her liking, but the DA mischarged it because she told a different story to make herself look better- and it's now revealed the charges are wrong and he was going to win at trial if he just calls the prosecutor's bluff, so they're dropping the charges at the last minute because he did that. That's just speculation but it's the sort of story which is fairly common).
And the mom seems like a grifter because she keeps raising the goal in her fundraising goal.
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