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A new Mishna details those whose fathers get no fine if they are raped or seduced: a convert, a emancipated captive woman, and a redeemed gentile maidservant who were converted or freed when they were older than three years and one day.
The assumption is that they must have had sexual intercourse.
Rabbi Yehuda argues that the captive woman might still be a virgin.
Girls and women who were raped by their father, grandfather, step-father, or step-grandfather.
This is because the perpetrator is liable to the death penalty and thus he does not pay a fine.
Justin Jaron Lewis reviews cases of rape, where one might expect the rabbis to punish the transgressors, even if they could not be convicted under the stringent Talmudic rules of evidence.
However, in the responsa of three late 18th century women the issue of punishment does not arise. Moreover, the halakhic process, in these cases, has proven capable only of solving problems of its own creation and incapable of listening to women or answering their calls for help.