[wbarmy]

From SB145;

This bill would exempt from mandatory registration under the act a person convicted of certain offenses involving minors if the person is not more than 10 years older than the minor and if that offense is the only one requiring the person to register.

So, by this definition of an offense, an 18 yr old does not have to register if they molested a 10 year old boy or girl. So, a 25 year old does not have to register if they molest a 16 yr old.

Seems to me they are decriminalizing anybody who does it with a teenager of any age. Even some of the preteens need to look out.

[Hambone 1934]

This sure makes pedos in Hollywood happy...

[Wayne07]

"Seems to me they are decriminalizing anybody who does it with a teenager of any age. Even some of the preteens need to look out."

No, not at all. They aren't decriminalizing it, they are changing the sex offender registration database. It is still a crime, you still go to jail. This is just about registration afterwards.

[Retphys]

“ Seems to me they are decriminalizing anybody who does it with a teenager of any age. Even some of the preteens need to look out.”

They aren’t decriminalizing, from my skimming of the bill the only thing that changes is registering as a sex offender. As a non-lawyer, I wish someone who knows more about California’s codes would interpret all the exceptions to this. I can pick out that anything violent is excepted, but I’m not sure about the other code numbers cited. In any case, 10 years for something like this sounds like way too much. Two or three years, maybe.