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O'Reilly On Colorado Rep: "His life is about to take a turn for the worst"
Bill O'Reilly ^

Posted on 03/04/2013 1:22:10 PM PST by ConservativeMan55

Colorado is one of 7 states refusing to pass Jessica's Law. O'Reilly has helped get mandatory sentencing for child predators passed in the other 43 states.

Tonight O'Reilly will send a crew to confront Colorado House Speaker Mark Ferrandino — described by O'Reilly as a "villain" for killing Jessica's Law.

The law is named after Jessica Lunsford, a young Florida girl who was sexually battered and murdered in February 2005 by John Couey, a previously convicted sex offender. Public outrage over this case spurred Florida officials to introduce this legislation.

Among the key provisions of the law was classifying lewd or lascivious molestation on a person under the age of 12 as a life felony, and a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years in prison.[2] and lifetime electronic monitoring[3] of adults convicted of lewd or lascivious molestation against a victim less than 12 years old.

The statute almost requires that if an offender is sentenced to a term of years, he or she must be given lifetime probation following the imprisonment. In Florida, another charge, capital sexual battery is defined as: A person 18 years of age or older who commits sexual battery upon, or in an attempt to commit sexual battery injures the sexual organs of, a person less than 12 years of age commits a capital felony. The charge carries a mandatory life sentence

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: jessicaslaw
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To: PapaBear3625
   The harsh sentence means that there will be a fear of being falsely accused and that fear could lead to a fear of working with children and/or even a fear of having children.

   The sociopaths that the law is probably intended for will see it as a reason to kill all of the witnesses.

  Unintended consequences...
21 posted on 03/04/2013 7:23:54 PM PST by Maurice Tift (You can't stop the signal, Mal. You can never stop the signal.)
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