I am so, so tired of being portrayed as some helpless little thing. Women are not weak, we are strong. We are the equals of men and should behave like it and that includes having the strength to do the difficult thing. I think a year is more than enough time to screw up the courage to go see the police other than in the case of youth or the exception Mandi already noted.
It is completely unreasonable to ask innocent guys to be able to alibi themselves for something that happened 10 years before. Can you account for your whereabouts on any given day/night in 2007? I seriously doubt it and I think the same applies to most people.