It's funny how people are OK with allegations of child abuse, sexual abuse, rape against the church and creepy olympics coaches and doctors decades later, but as soon as it's a popular celebrity, it's sus. Nobody is calling the women's olympic team a liar or the victims of the Catholic church. We've been through decades of these allegations and there's a ton of psychological and legal data that explains why victims don't feel safe coming forward right away. A 13 year old girl going to the police and/or her parents to explain Jay Z and Puffy sexually violated her, at the height of their popularity, is so unlikely. People come forward when they feel safe, when they have some distance from the incident, and definitely when they see other people have the courage to come forward. That's just how it goes and how it always goes. Also criminal charges have a time limit, civil charges do not, so yes, if the criminal statute of limitation has expired, the civil is the only recourse.