Around 3 weeks ago, my girlfriend met a man who helped pick up her books when she dropped them at the college bookstore, and added him on facebook. Unknown to her, he slipped a $50 note into one of her books. Yesterday, he claimed she stole the note and requested it be returned to him at his dorm room. She went there, and he offered to give her a massage. After his claimed "roommate and his girlfriend" left, he proceeded to forcefully strip her, muffle her mouth, and fingered her and forced a dildo inside of her vagina (she is a virgin and it ended up causing quite a bit of pain). She was eventually able to break free, and he messaged her saying he was a pimp that employed girls including the "roommate and girlfriend" he showed earlier, that she enjoyed it, and that she had consented to it (she clearly did not). He then proceeded to delete his facebook account, which he had said was fake with a fake name.
My girlfriend told me all of this about an hour after it happened, and was understandly extremely upset and begged me not to tell anyone because she was blaming herself. I assured her repeatedly that none of it was her fault, but she was insistent that she didn't want the police or her parents involved. I eventually managed to convince her to contact a counselor, who said there was an ongoing investigation of the person (one other girl had a similar case with the same fake facebook account). My girlfriend still tells me all she wants to do is forget about it, but my belief that she'll regret that decision, along with the desire to prevent this man from harming more women, makes me want to do everything possible to find out who he is as soon as possible and bring him to justice, which includes calling the police and getting whatever DNA evidence is possible.
I don't know the right way to comfort my girlfriend and if it's possible to catch the man that did this to her. Please help
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