Not particulary tied to your example, but in Italy until 1981 the man who raped or kidnapped a woman could choose to marry her to "restore the honor of her and her family's", and the marriage would extinguish the penal effect of the crime (and mind that the crime wasn't against the person itself but against the moral). It was abolished when Franca Viola became the first woman to refuse this "shotgun marriage"; dont know if its called this way in english. But to be fair i think it kept being "normal" in the south longer than other parts of Italy, like even if the law still existed i don't think in the center or the north it would have been considered viable or normal. But yeah women had it pretty rough.