Why would Manti Te'o do this if he was a victim?

[Steve]

According to Deadspin, Lennay Kukua's fake sister "U'ilani" messaged Manti over twitter after Lennay died. When some people called out U'ilani as a a fake and said they were using fake photos and were also running the phony Lennay twitter account, the U'ilani account was immediately deleted. Then, Manti Te'o deleted all of his tweets mentioning U'ilani. Seems like very suspicious behavior. As soon as someone calls them out as a fake, Te'o deletes all mention of them, but never questions it further? Come on. He's a fraud. My guess is that he was in on it and it was to protect his secret....Te'o is a homosexual. He didn't want it coming out, especially before the draft, so he made up the whole Lennay deal.