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Our question is would this actually hold water in the legal system, and would a prosecutor be likely to do something with this charge as it is 16 yrs old?
No one here can intelligently predict what an unknown prosecutor would or wouldn't do, but consider the following:

Let's say your wife reports the matter. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume she has no evidence of what happened other than her testimony. Not only was your wife admittedly drunk, but the event in question happened 16 years ago.

Now let's say that someone decides to go talk with the boy involved. What do you think he's going to say about what happened? Maybe he denies that any sex occurred at all. Maybe he's stupid and admits that the sex occurred but says your wife was lucid and consented. Maybe he says that your wife was the one who initiated the sex and that he, as the younger student, felt he had no choice but to go along with it -- i.e., that your wife raped him and not the other way around.

So...unless this guy for some reason admits to a forcible rape (and I think we can both agree that's not going to happen), what do you think a prosecutor is going to do with something like this that's nothing more than one person's word against another?

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do we have any grounds for emotional damage/distress? Does Missouri have any limits on Civil Charges in a case like this?
First, there's no "we." I assume you didn't even know your wife at the time. Second, yes, there's a statute of limitations, and it has long since expired.

The only realistic thing for your wife to do at this point is to seek treatment from a mental health professional.