If your boss raped you, it’s a felony.
Accepting a payoff changes nothing about the crime. You are merely keeping quiet about a felony crime, and allowing the felon to rape someone else.
If the rape came to light after the payoff, but within the statute of limitations, your boss could still go to jail for a very long time. He’d still be fired for committing a felony.
There’s nothing to stop the victim from going to the police anyway.
The whole idea of paying off the victim of your crime to get out of jail should be illegal, imo.
You miss the entire point.
If your boss rapes you, and you accept money for it, the act becomes consensual after the fact. It’s just prostitution.
If it’s a crime, then prosecute it as a crime immediately. Once you take money for the act it is no longer a crime it is a contract.
And the evidence that exists of you taking the money severely taints any future criminal case anyway. (”Why didn’t she report it immediately? Why did she accept payment for it? Isn’t she just a prostitute?”). Especially in cases where no evidence of any rape exists.
If you don’t want him to be allowed to perform that act again, then forego the money and press charges now.
Do you see where I am coming from?
You can either have the money or the criminal prosecution, not both.
Banning non-disclosure settlements reduces the options to only one, criminal prosecution. Which means that most “victims” will get nothing as they cannot prove the act ever happened. He said/she said is not evidence.