Skeeter211

Oh...so let's say a spouse is an alcoholic that continually beats his foreign spouse, goes to jail and gets out, only to resume his drinking and beating her again. I guess love will keep them together so she can get beat some more. You suggest that she should just forgive him until he beats her to "death do us part"? Sorry, but he made his choice and I don't think she is obligated to put up with it for the rest of her life. It's up to her whether she believes him and wants to give him a second chance. To say that someone should forgive criminal behavior and just live with it for the sake of love and marriage, in my opinion, is not a good option. Criminal behavior is a choice.
I also agree with the poster that said 5 years for a first offense of possession of stolen property is hard to believe...at least in criminal justice in California. Granted, other states might be different. It makes me wonder if there is more to his past that she doesn't know about. It also makes me wonder if he has an accompanying drug use history..
As I said, the choice is yours if you want to forgive him and give him a second chance, but I think the theory that you owe it to your marriage to stick with this guy and if you love him you will forgive him, is no more valid than the "divorce him no matter what" approach.
Other than all of our subjective opinions, I would say to seek and follow the advice of an attorney.

Just my opinion so take it for what its worth as I am a cynical person by nature, but....
Bottom line is....I think there is a lot of question in people's mind here about whether this was a rape or a woman that cheated and accidentally got pregnant. The latter would call serious questions as to the validity of your bona fide relationship. Because of that you both will need to be prepared for some heavy duty questions from the CO at interview time. I don't know that a letter from you is going to relieve her from a grilling by the CO about the origin of this baby and how it came to be. I would not put it past the Embassy to do a field investigation and contact people she knows to see if there is any discrepancies. It seems she knows this guy that "raped" her and if I were the CO, I would want to interview family and aquaintances to see if there was any lovey lovey between them.
If I were you and this guy raped my wife, I would insist she go to the police and turn him in. This guy committed a crime and RAPED her!!! He is not to be protected, she is the one. If she can't do that, maybe there is a reason why? If she has a big family there with her, what's to worry about him threatening her? She is coming here to the states anyway. Maybe her family can hide her in a far away relatives residence till she get's her visa if she is scared?
A rape report/investgation will help the CO clear it in his/her mind what happened. Without it, I believe you are inviting questions and cynicism into the room with her. The CO's are already very cynical as it is because of all the fraud there. Admittedly, we don't know the whole story here from this thread, but something doesn't seem right to me. I think another red flag to the CO will be that the child will go to the parents of the "rapist". I just see a lot of problems ahead in getting a visa approved, but that is ONLY my opinion. Only God and your wife really knows what happened at this point.
If your wife was truly a victim of a rape, then I am sorry for you, for her, and for her unborn child. It's hard to be objective when you are close to the situation. You love her so much and want what she says to be true. I pray to God it is true and she has honest intentions as I am sure that I, nor anyone else will not change your mind at this point, based on what you have already said about believing her.