After few weeks when Kate finally managed to return to school but it was enough time for the man to make up lies about what happened. He still had a clean image in front of everyone and told everyone that she was the one that threw herself on him.
What about the clear bruises on her body? He made up lies about it too, telling everyone that she tried to frame her so that she could exploit him for money. The public ate it all up at face value almost deeming her as a gold digger with a promiscuous past!
She was being ostracized no matter where she went bombarded with dirty comments from his so called friends while he enjoyed watching her suffer. In his mind it was only her fault for not giving it up!