However, I believe that Song Chin was the true villain of the story.  The pressures he put on Jasmine, both emotional (indirectly blaming her for Chelsea's death), dutiful (making her take up the "housewife" role), and physical (the rape itself) were a despicable act by a man whose moral structure collapsed when the love of his life died, unfairly as he saw it.  The eventual rape of Jasmine seemed to be a logical conclusion to their relationship, as far as he saw things.
As for Jasmine's remembrance of the event, two factors come into play when we discuss this:
1) The team had just liberated a young girl from her own father, who had been doing something similar to what Song Chin did to Jasmine.
2) Deep down, Jasmine still feels guilty about her father's death, even eight years after the fact.  If you'll notice, in the next issue, when Rocky returns (#12, Fagin's Kids, pt. 1), Rocky mentioned that Jasmine went to jail.  In fact, she went to jail for her father's killing.  She only plead guilty to it because she had no idea what she could do about it.  Let's consider the facts: we have a young teenage girl, 17 years old, frightened out of her wits, who's just killed her father because he was about to rape her.  She would not be thinking very clearly, to be realistic.

Thank you, Marblecat1, for your response to my words.  It's nice to know that my writings are having an impact, not just sitting idly on the Web.

My second? I should have stated on this story that it was a pure work of fiction, that nothing like the situation ever happened to me, personally. I feel really bad now! I have this outpouring of love and support from Rg, and to be quite truthful, I really don't think I deserve it, since the entire story was made up!!

 Still, it's good to know that, like with Marblecat1, this story had an impact, however different, on the reader. Rg's horrible experience, I'm glad to hear, is in the past, where it can't hurt him anymore. This is the way Jasmine wanted to be after her father died. However, as you may see through her actions, she really hasn't resolved this, and put it in her past yet. She still allows her emotions to get in the way of her better judgment. Sometimes this isn't a bad thing; she was thinking clearly when she went to rescue her cousin in Issues #7 and 8, "The Homecoming." However, most of the time, such as in Issue #2, "Bad Memories," or in "Fagin's Kids," she winds up getting hurt, or worse. I don't think anyone thinking clearly would challenge a psychotic immortal or a super-strong punk carrying arm-length blades and jet-powered in-line skates, would they?

My point to all this is that I was shocked to find out exactly how realistic "Shattered Innocence" was. I honestly had no idea! Honest!!