Peter Garsden, president of the association of child abuse lawyers and a solicitor representing two of the alleged victims, said: "If there is any way he can be placed before a court of law in any sense at all, that would satisfy the victims' requirements for justice.
If the lack of access to sex were a cause of child rape, schoolyards and parks would be teeming with adults trolling for victims, but the requirement that priests be celibate can make the priesthood a haven for a Catholic man in search of a way to erase his "id".
Most disturbing, the critics say, is a state requirement that victims who accept restitution must promise not to seek any other legal redress.
"Whilst witnesses clearly cannot simply admit to any offence under oath without consequences, this has to be balanced with the requirement for victims and witnesses to tell the truth.
Ms. Fairstein was also credited with a major role in the passage of a 1983 law that struck down a requirement that victims of rape and other sex crimes prove that they had offered "earnest resistance".
It is also ending the requirement that victims sign a confidentiality provision preventing them from speaking about the sexual assault or sexual harassment they suffered — saying survivors will now have the option to settle their claims with Uber without having to agree to being publicly silenced in order to do so.
But the $1.4 million in restitution Fogle has been ordered to pay to victims is a criminal requirement, Goldberg explained, which means victims can also pursue restitution in civil court.
A recent courtroom challenge by Rights of Women upheld the legality of the evidence requirements for victims of domestic violence to obtain legal aid.
In a case heard on Friday at the High Court, the government was accused of "turning women away at the first hurdle" in cases of child custody or division of assets when it bought in new rules that set out mandatory evidence requirements for victims seeking legal aid for private family law cases.
She filed suit, and a judge halted the publication requirement for rape victims in Palm Beach County, although it still applies to rape victims elsewhere in Florida.
