Doe v. Hesketh

MEMORANDUM

DALZELL, District Judge.

We here consider defendant Matthew Alan Mancuso’s motion to dismiss plaintiff Jane Doe’s complaint because, he contends, the restitution he paid to Doe in accordance with his criminal sentence bars *442a second recovery for Doe in a civil suit under another statute. Unlike actions in which child-porn victims have successfully sought restitution from so-called non-contact tortfeasors who possessed but did not create the illicit images, the plaintiff here seeks restitution from the originator of those images at whose hands she suffered horrific abuse. But this case…