polite_gandalf wrote on Jul 7
th, 2016 at 5:17pm:
Personally, I would put her rather bizarre initial reaction down to the emotional trauma of the rape - again, something which I'm pretty sure you have no inkling of what it is like. And while I'm no expert in the field, I'm pretty sure that a sort of "Stockholm syndrone" effect is not uncommon with rape victims, as a coping mechanism for the trauma suffered by someone who is understandably not in the right state of mind. A reasonable assumption that is supported by the fact that she "came to her senses" in the hours after the event, and acknowledged her mistake.
But Stockholm Syndrome is the term applied when captives begin to sympathize with their captors, and it tends to happen over a period of days.
I don't claim expertise in the field of psychology either -- and feel free to provide credible evidence that disproves my take on this -- but I don't find much of anything online that links Stockholm Syndrome to gang rape, especially when it's a relatively brief, one-time act involving strangers.
I think it's more likely that the woman was a leftist who was simply adhering to the tenets of political correctness by viewing refugees as victims, even after she herself was sexually abused. In her world, racism is worse than rape.
Note that an Express report identifies her as "a passionate activist for refugee rights," who has "worked tirelessly to help refugees integrate into German society and has also visited a refugee centre in Iraq."
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/686192/selin-goren-arabic-men-rape-quiet-enc...She reportedly was "enraged" that the police first asked if her attackers were refugees, and even after she came clean to the police (at her boyfriend's urging, according to the Express), she posted this on Facebook: "I am really sorry that your sexist and line-crossing treatment of me could help fuel aggressive racism."
In other words, her political viewpoint after the assault isn't all that different from her political viewpoint before the assault. So my impression is that her "rather bizarre initial reaction" (a description I agree with) has less to do with psychology than ideology.