California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Rojano-Nieto, D073896 (Cal. App. 2019):
in the restitution order "helps to protect child victims of sexual abuse, both by increasing the punishment for offenders and by compensating those victims for psychological harm." (People v. Smith (2011) 198 Cal.App.4th 415, 435.)
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