I'm not even sure that the precedent it'd create is a big issue. They'd be as much paying to shutdown angles of bad press as anything else and this is so volatile because it's the first big story along these lines for them, it's beyond a basic theft and it's emotionally written. Future incidents probably won't contain those three elements.

Down the track, they can say "Sorry, that other time was a once-off, we have many T&C/suggestions that cover what's happened" and the victim is going to have to be unnaturally persistent with the press to create a story this damaging.