Posted on 04/15/2024 5:38:09 PM PDT by chickenlips
A mother’s three-year battle to jail the man who systematically enticed her son to make a sex video and perform lewd acts resulted in the first “unlawful grooming and solicitation of a minor” conviction in 2014, and led to a series of laws just passed in Florida. (Thankfully, the man was caught before he was able to make physical contact.)
Until now, there have been only two anti-grooming laws on the books: one in Illinois, and one at the federal level. The excuses in other states have been, “grooming is very hard to prove,” “children would be emotionally harmed by having to testify in public,” and “these charges often rely on hearsay evidence.”
Yet, landmark legislation passed on April 10th in the state of Florida that significantly changes the laws on sexual predation and grooming. There were five different bills signed by Governor DeSantis:
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Unfortunately, similar legislation in other states has stalled. Iowa’s grooming law sponsored by Rep. Mark Thompson passed the House 94-0 but is now sitting in their Senate committee. The Senate President is Jack Witver who is not calling the bill for vote.
Illinois HB4340 — an amendment to the current criminal code anti-grooming law — is also stalled in committee. This amendment would prevent those charged with grooming from being able to take a plea deal, which will be known as “Andrew’s Law.” The representative responsible for calling this bill for vote in this committee is State Representative Justin Slaughter.
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Groomers should be executed.
Someone that enticed a child to make a sex video was not criminally liable previously?
That seems impossible to be the case.
While I applaud taking complete advantage of the GOP control of the state. Unless the differences between the already existent laws and the new ones are clearly delineated-I’m barely paying attention.
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