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Liability For Mass Sexual Abuse, Tsachi Keren-Paz, Richard W. Wright
Liability For Mass Sexual Abuse, Tsachi Keren-Paz, Richard W. Wright
Richard W. Wright
When harm is caused to victims by multiple injurers, difficult issues arise in
determining causation of, legal responsibility for, and allocation of liability for
those harms. Nowhere is this truer than in child pornography and sex trafficking
cases, in which individuals have been victimized over extended periods of
time by hundreds or even many thousands of injurers, with multiple and often
overlapping victims of each injurer. Courts (and lawyers) struggle with these
situations for a simple reason: they insist on applying tests of causation that
fail when the effect was over-determined by multiple conditions. The failure to
properly understand the …