The rape victim was 71 years old but why does it matter

I am getting increasingly irked by all the coverage of the Nun's rape. Fail to understand why so much focus is on the age of the Nun. A rape is a rape, be it an assault on a 71 year old or a 21 year old. Why the unnecessary hype on the age?

Everywhere - in the news, or even on social media - in the coverage that the incident is getting; there is excessive emphasis on the age of the nun who faced the sexual assault. And I ask myself whether the fact that the nun was well beyond her prime and probably the age of the assailants' grandmother makes the crime any more horrible than the other rapes that have happened in the past or keep happening every day in India? Was Suzette Jordan's rape any different from 'Nirbhaya' (thanks to BBC, we even know Nirbhaya's real name now - Jyoti Singh) incident just because she was the mother of teenage daughters? Even Aruna Shanbaug's case is a radical reminder that every rape, be it on a teenager or a women in her twenties, thirties, forties or even seventies as brutal as that of the nun, if not more.

Why then the unnecessary focus on the Nun's age?

I do understand when a child faces sexual assault, the age of the child becomes a highlight of the gruesome incident for two primary reasons: 1) the child does not even understand what he or she has been subjected to; and 2) his / her body is not even physically developed to handle what it has been inflicted to. Highlighting the young age of the victim in such cases is also only necessary to understand the psychological impact on the child victim which is very different from the psychological impact on an adult victim. But, again, even in such cases, the focus still remains on the criminal's alarming psychological need to overpower and dominate the other person, usually the female who is often highlighted in all these incidents as the weaker sex.

But, in any case, the age of the victim does not even matter in the rape. It is a brutal and barbaric crime no matter what.

P.S. For that matter, it is even irrelevant that the victim was a Nun. She was a 'women' who bore the brunt of savage male mentality.