This law may have encouraged kidnappers or rapist to work in groups since the penalty would be less if they worked together. but they also had a law enforcing guilty by association. Would this this added onto the original charge of kidnapping.

I'm surprised they included that the crime has to be proven. This is similar to our modern days justice system's idea of "innocent until proven guilty". Although I'm not sure how well this idea was honored considering what the Middle Eastern's observed about the Frankish people that we read in last weeks lesson.

This tells me that the Franks saw women as property and breeding items. Since a woman who has just begun bearing children has the largest penalty has the highest penalty makes me think this has something to do with the religious ideas of a woman's sexual "purity" defining her value. Or she has the most potential of having more children,