It is a most abominable thing for those who are considered reliable on account of their position, and who have already shown themselves to be worthy of trust in the eyes of persons who have formed this good opinion of them, to manifest hatred and perfidiousness instead of virtue and fidelity. Therefore, when guardians, instead of considering the welfare of female wards placed in their care, prove to be their destroyers, their offence is much more serious because of the confidence which has been reposed in them. This occurs where a father is convinced that the guardian to whom he entrusts his children, including his daughter, will treat them with paternal solicitude. Legislators have very properly decided that when a guardian corrupts a female ward under such circumstances, when he should have acted as her father and protector, he must be punished; for they subjected him to deportation and the loss of his property. But their regulations are not, strictly speaking, applicable to all cases, for they do not seem to have taken into consideration the outrage undergone by the ward, as they ordered that all the guardian's property should be confiscated to the Treasury, without noticing that they did not avenge the injury as they intended to do. For how can it be said that it was avenged, when the wrong which the girl was said to have suffered was not atoned for, and the law did not afford her any means of avoiding the evils resulting from the injury? For what refuge is there for the girl when she not only obtains no compensation for her wrongs, but sees that calculation has been made for the profit that may be obtained from her dishonor and infamy as she grows older? Therefore, in order that by means of this law We can, as it were, remove all cause for censure from this law, We abolish the provision that the I property of the seducer shall be confiscated to the Treasury; and We decree that it shall be given to her for whose injury and misfortune He was responsible.