You also forfeited your property when you were convicted of such offenses. Generally to whoever was bringing the prosecutions.
Indeed, which is presumed to be one of the primary reasons, alongside hushing political dissent, for why Gilles De Rais was framed and executed. A case which is actually rather interesting, because it has a lot of parallels with Vic's situation. The prosecutor insisted that he cut a bloody rapey path of literally thousands and thousands of children whom no one had ever seen or heard of, no one had ever witnessed him doing any of, nor even witnessed him behaving in a way that might suggest he was doing that - one quote from the trial was, in all seriousness, something along the lines of "There is not one minute of the day, not one second of it, in which Gilles was not raping or pillaging and killing innocents AT ALL TIMES while traveling the countryside."
Of course, his accusations involved thousands of nonexistent victims, a few children in particular that no one could even be sure ever existed, and at least two physically impossible acts - one requiring him to simultaneously be in two places at once, and one requiring him to exert superhuman strength and endurance at the same time.
It also involved forcing him to confess and apologize for what he did, just so they could kill him anyway.
I'm just sayin'.
ETA: the exact quote, charge 15 of his indictment - "
for the past fourteen years, every year, every month, every day, every night and every hour... [Gilles] took, killed, cut the throats of many children, boys and girls... " - so, you know. Much like Vic, he had mastered the art of somehow ninja raping people like lightning in the middle of public and whatever else he happened to be doing at the top of every hour,
double bonus round, I forgot this until I went and looked up the quote: Gilles also suffered from the "He's clearly into little girls, he's obviously gay and into little boys". Literally the same 'he seems gay, he must be into little boys + also little girls' line of reasoning.
