An appeals court has overturned a Philadelphia federal judge’s ruling that criminal restitution paid by a child pornographer to the girl he pleaded guilty to exploiting allowed him to escape a lawsuit from his victim.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that Masha’s Law allows child exploitation and abuse victims to sue their abusers for further compensation after they have been prosecuted, upending U.S. District Judge Stewart Dalzell of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania’s ruling that it constitutes double-dipping.
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