No, he was desperate for an excuse to keep him because he liked him. You can see in the leaked dms graf is talking to the guy after he got doxed saying "hey I really like you and want to keep you around I just need proof that what you say [about it being consensual] is true".

He also says in dms with I believe terry that he thought it was a "5 to 6 year" age gap. g177ch had told them in a matrix chat that the girl was almost 18 and it was consensual, and from what graf says in g177ch's dms most poast users just believed that and were ok with it, as was graf.

In actual fact, just using the sex offender registry you are able to figure out that g177ch was 24 at the time the offense took place and his victim was 13 or 14. This was very easy to figure out as all you had to do was look at the specific offense he was charged with which states an age gap of over 10 years. Graf just refused to do this because he liked g177ch.