Under Biblical Law, a Man Who Rapes an Unmarried Woman Pays a Bride Price and Can Be Made to Marry Her
The rapist is compelled to pay the bride price (which restored her position in society), can be forced to marry her, and does not have the option of divorcing her.
In Douglas Wilson’s own words: 1 quote from 1999, from Fidelity: What It Means to Be a One-Woman Man, cited to the source.
If the woman is not married or betrothed, the penalty is different. The rapist is compelled to pay the bride price (which restored her position in society), can be forced to marry her, and does not have the option of divorcing her. Now this does not mean that the woman was forced into a marriage with the man who raped her. […] When a woman is unattached, the rapist is forced to restore her marriagibility, either by marrying her himself, or by providing her with a bride price. Compare this to what happens to a rapist in our society, and what happens to the women, and we see the immediate discrepancy. Biblical law is far more concerned for the sexual protection of women than is our culture, despite our empassioned rhetoric on the point.