This is remarkable. But I think the lesson here is that age nor gender have anything to do with the person's heart and bravery. I'm glad she is safe now.
I think that people need to realize that a developer is someone that simply builds the solution to a problem no matter what that problem may be (ease of use, a new business etc.) If you use that train of thought it only makes to focus on all of the things that do not work to successfully achieve the goal of finding the thing that does. So regardless of how good their code is the developer has to have the mindset of first fixing all the bad to deliver a working solution.