Check the 2007 posting of the Court of Appeals verdict on the Buck caseCheck the 2007 posting of the Court of Appeals verdict on the Buck case, at
http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/A131973.h...

It describes the circumstances of the "touching": the girl had been complimented on her beauty by the defendant, in a way that her sister said was like what a boy friend would say; he said she was an early bloomer and seemed to be 20 or 30 years old to him; her mother had allowed Buck and another male friend of the family to take the 13-year old and her sister on a camping trip, which is where the incident occurred; he told her again, while sitting fishing, how beautiful he thought she was, and that he "had only love and affection for her,"; he put his hand on her lower back ostensibly to lever himself back up the sloping rock they were both sitting on.

All this sounds like "grooming" for abuse, to me (as well as criminally bad parenting on the part of the mother). The court heard all these details of the surrounding circumstances, as well as testimony about how upset the girl was on the occasion and how she afterward attempted suicide, cut herself, and acted out sexually at school after leaving her mother's house and going to live with her stepmother. Maybe this was not the first time mom had allowed or encouraged men to approach her daughters. But be that as it may, the total picture is not conveyed by what has been reported in the newspapers.