Taiwan's Constitutional Court has struck down the old deadline for prosecuting child sex crimes, a win for survivors but one that still leaves most cases out in the cold.

• The court ruled that the pre-2005 law cut off prosecutions too early, ignoring that abused children often cannot speak up for years.
• Eleven people who brought the case had their closed rulings thrown out and sent back for retrial.
• The ruling only covers those cases — survivors who never reached the Constitutional Court are still blocked by the old deadline.
• Advocacy groups want parliament to close the gap in law, and want open hearings on a separate case about deadlines for suing abusers for damages.
• Taiwan sees around 5,000 child sex abuse cases a year, and in most of them the child knows the attacker; for children under six, most attackers are close family.

Outlook: Campaigners will push parliament to change the law during its extended session, and the fight over civil damage claims is still open.