A single woman can hit her assailer with a lawsuit in beis din for a very large compensation. Rabbi Akiva obligated someone to pay 400 zuz(2 times the poverty line yearly salary at the time) for taking off a lady’s teichel in piblic, how much more so he would award an assault victim. Plus, he is probably deserving of a stricter punishment, but Torah had mercy on daman shel Isroel.A non-Isroel would be chayav misa. Plus, as the Englishman wrote there is an issue of very severe emotional pain inflicted for which he needs to get forgiveness.
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