There is no clear answer as to why Bob Ewell did not call a doctor. The cost implication is a plausible, if rather heartless reason. However, other testimony indicated that Bob was not known for giving consideration to his daughter. As a result there remains no evidence as to whether Mayella Ewell was raped by anyone. Her facial injuries suggest an assault by someone other than Tom Robinson - as Atticus attempted to prove - and the most likely offender was Bob Ewell. Again it is possible that the Ewells did not want the assault investigated becaus of this, but could also allude to Mayella's deep distrust of a community who treated her with pity at best.
We have to be careful of jumping to the same sorts of conclusions and prejudices as the people of the time, which is as implicit in the ambiguity surrounding Mayella's assault as it is in say, the two sides to Dolphus Raymond.
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