After Benito Mussolini's death in 1945, secretary after cabinet wife after maid came forward to declare that she had been raped by Il Duce.
Yes, it seems coldly idealistic to suppose anyone should jeopardize her career for some amorphous public interest - and colder still when that person is a young black woman who eventually came forward only to find her character on trial.
She came forward, Hill explained, because "my career is on solid ground."