Posted on 07/06/2008 8:10:56 AM PDT by george76
Brook Bennett's murder has brought back calls for a tougher law against adults who sexually prey on children. More than thirty states -- but not Vermont -- have enacted Jessica's law, setting a 25-year minimum prison sentence for convicted child sex offenders.
"When a person is sexually assaulted, a minor is sexually assaulted, it's my opinion that they should go to jail for 25 years," Dubie told Channel 3. "That's very simple and that's what Jessica's Law calls for. I'm also asking that we reconsider what the governor proposed last legislative session, and that's civil confinement."
House Judiciary committee chairman Bill Lippert (D-Hinesburg) opposed both proposals -- and both died.
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But wouldn’t enacting Jessica’s Law actually take away criminals rights in Vermont? Why, that is just not good liberal Vermont practice...!!!
Vermont needs a new motto.
Vermont! Kingdom of Filth!
Put that on your state seal all you leftist #$%^&*!!
“When a person is sexually assaulted, a minor is sexually assaulted, it’s my opinion that they should go to jail for 25 years,” Dubie told Channel 3.
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Sad, serious subject - but someone please arrest this man for grammar violations.
I’m waiting for Bill O’Reilly to get back from vacation to go after these Vermont judges and legislators again.
Why would the government of any state set out a red carpet for pedophiles?
They maybe pedophiles too ?
Remember the ACLU Virginia President who recently got caught .
Does this include 18-year-old high school seniors who get it on with their 17-year-old boyfriends and girlfriends? There are not enough jail cells on the planet...
” The law is named after Jessica Lunsford, a young Florida girl who was raped and murdered in February 2005 by John Couey, a previously convicted sex offender. “
Not for : 18-year-old high school seniors who get it on with their 17-year-old boyfriends and girlfriends
Bad cases make bad law. I agree that grown men who prey on pre-pubescent children should be hanged in public on the first offense. I don’t think that an 18-year-old high school girl who screws her 17-year-old boyfriend should be punished at all. Where does this proposed law draw the line?
And after that, maybe he can explain his intentions clearly, using language everyone can understand. Someone who rapes a small child should go to prison for life, if not face hanging, but "sexual assault" covers a whole host of sins, some rather minor, if they even are sins. If someone is relieving himself in the woods and a small girl wanders by and sees his exposed anatomy is he guilty of sexual assault? Given the percentage of the American public who are hyper-puritanical prudes, and given the percentage of prosecutors out to make names for themselves, it is not an academic question.
Age of consent should be 15 or 16. 18 is rather arbitrary. While were at it, let’s end schooling at the 9th or 10th grade.
Glad to see that I am not the only one who thinks that we need to think through where we are going with this.
Where does this proposed law draw the line?
How about when a 12-year-old niece is kidnapped, raped, and killed.
Michael Jacques kidnapped... Brooke Bennett.
Yeah, O’Reilly will put on a great show about this. He’ll be like Ted Baxter on acid.
For example: California's Prop 83
Scroll down to page 127 for the text of the legislation.
Thanks.
The law can be written to seperate two older teenagers versus a pre teen with an adult.
It seems that the judges are forcing this issue by their liberal activism releasing adult predators.
OK, that makes the second time you've dodged the question. I get it. People who rape and kill young children are bad and should be punished harshly. I agree. Chop their heads off in the court house square for all I care.
But as I read the proposed law, an 18-year-old high school girl who gets caught in bed with her 17-year-old boyfriend would be subject to a 25-year mandatory prison sentence. I think it's absurd.
-ccm
We agree in this :
the proposed law, an 18-year-old high school girl who gets caught in bed with her 17-year-old boyfriend would be subject to a 25-year mandatory prison sentence. I think it’s absurd.
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