So what really happened to Jessica?

[Burusagi]

The Priest clearly gave her the bad touch sexually, but did he kill her as well? Did she kill herself because of said bad touch? The game seems to give two contradictionary accounts of her death in that regard.

[AVeryOddBox]

I think she died there on the stairs, the commting suicide was probably set up by the priest, and Blake was forced to keep quiet.

[Ǵ̶͓̂͑lí̴̤̀̄́tcĥ̸]

Yup, seems likely that the priest forced Blake to help him hang her and act as if she was discovered that way, as it was the only way to make it look like the broken neck was self inflicted; although it would have been easier just to say she slipped and fell down the stairs on her own, which happens, and he (Priest) could not grab her in time to save her, considering the blunt trauma on her scalp from hitting the stairs would not be explained by hanging - though if such an 'accident' happened under his care then he would still have to take some responsibility, I suppose. There is the possibility that, considering the few mentionings of her father implying he may have been abusive, such wounds were attributed to him and perhaps he was used as the fallguy as the reason she 'hung herself'.

I suppose it was taken so far to further the psychological manipulation the Priest had forced onto Blake in order to cover his lie. The Priest then spent the next however long attempting to make Blake think he did the right thing in the eyes of God, probably some bull*hit about Blake protecting one of God's children (the Priest) in favor of a temptress (Jess) getting what she deserved, which in turn saves Blake ("You're not evil" and all of that) - this would make a child feel somewhat reassured yet simultanously share responsibility regardless, which is why the guilt and conflict is so profound now that he's older and understands what happened, but also why he couldn't tell anyone before when he was younger, out of fear.

[LAW | Semi_The_Shadow]

I dont believe jessica was sexually abused....my thoughts on it are this

Jessica's father was abusive (not sexually)...the priest was demented yes.. he enjoyed to see other people's pain and thats what got him off... when the priest asked jessica if she wanted him to call her father she got real hesitant... the priest knew her father was abusive and he loved seeing her reaction...

He then tells blake to leave... he was gonna use this time to hit and hurt jessica....it went to far and I believe he killed her on the stairs... jessica was then hung up by the priest to make it look like she did it... thats as much as I can get out of it

[horrible statue]

who gives a ♥♥♥♥ my guy cant even crouch properly. this game is a joke

[Burusagi]

Originally posted by ⊂╫i└└ i∩':

Yup, seems likely that the priest forced Blake to help him hang her and act as if she was discovered that way, as it was the only way to make it look like the broken neck was self inflicted; although it would have been easier just to say she slipped and fell down the stairs on her own

If they staged the hanging, I'd say it was because of Jessica coming from a broken home and as such her being depressed enough to commit suicide would seem more plausible than simply falling down some stairs.

[Burusagi]

Originally posted by LAW | Semi_The_Shadow:

I dont believe jessica was sexually abused....my thoughts on it are this

What convinced me was a scene in the mines where you hear her and the priest singing together - until you discover a pair of skellingtons who are quite obviously put on display in such a manner as to imply they're having sex. The fact that the singing leads you to this scene, as well as it abruptly stopping when you discover the skellingtons, seems to heavily imply sexual abuse between the two.