This is an awful story, no two ways about it.
But to refer to these attitudes as belonging to the middle ages, just doesn't wash I'm afraid, unless the middle ages ended in the mid 1980s.
In the 1920s right the way through to around the 1950s women who had been raped often ended up getting locked with the the prostitutes, one woman was put in an institution and remained there for 70 years until she died, in another case I read of a woman reported being attacked and was promptly arreseted when her sister heard what had happened she went to the station to protest, she was also arrested.
In 1979 there was fly on the wall documentry in which a woman went to the police to complain of rape, she was savagely interviewed and wholly disbelieved, this show ushered in the change in values.
In those days a rape victim would be made to wait in the corridor and seated on a hard wooden chair, if she squirmed she'd been raped was the assertion.
All through the 1980s there was a conversation in the media as to whether it was possible to rape your wife (perfectly legal a 100 or so years ago), Dubai has been an independent sovreign country for about 50 years, we for just under 1000.
Yet our attitudes towards this were only set 20 years ago, how do you explain that?