A one-time law allowed Hasidic women to name the men they say abused them
“Do you remember him?” Nechie Fischman’s friend asked her in November.
It had been nearly a decade since the 30-year-old former Orthodox Jewish woman last saw the Brooklyn doctor.
Still, she remembered him instantly.
The friend had sent her an Instagram post from a charity looking for plaintiffs to participate in a lawsuit against Dr Robert Goodman. (Dr Goodman denies the allegations in the lawsuit.)
The group would file under the recently expired New York’s Adult Survivors Act, a piece of legislation allowing adult survivors of sexual abuse to file civil claims against their assailants during a one-year lookback window regardless of when the crime occurred.
But for Ms Fischman, there was a lot to consider.
Borough Park’s tight-knit
