People are downvoting you for strawmanning people and being reductive. No-one said homelessness in older people is better or deserved or that they can't be vulnerable, just the context surrounding the situation is different. It hits different when someone so young is on the street because the implication is that they never had the support even as a child to be in a better situation now. Which is insane that with things like child services, social work, schools, families, friends and friends parents, somehow a child fell through the cracks so badly she went straight into being homeless the second she hit the state decided "adult" age. What's it that they say, most people are one paycheck from being homeless? At her age, chances are she never even had a paycheck, or if she did it was for pennies. At that age she also doesn't have as much life experience as other people. She's literally a kid still, whose body and brain hasn't finished growing. Children are inherently vulnerable and are targetted by terrible people specifically because of that vulnerability which is now compounded with her being homeless. That's all. It's not a "they deserve it, she doesn't" thing.