Posted on 04/23/2024 8:02:42 AM PDT by rktman
Republican state Sen. Shannon Grove of California blasted her Democratic colleagues for weakening a bill that would make buying a child for sex a felony offense.
The bill, which Grove introduced in February, would have made soliciting a minor for sex a felony charge with the potential for up to four years of prison time, a fine of up to $25,000 and required those convicted to register as sex offenders. Democratic lawmakers on the Senate Public Safety Committee passed amendments to the bill Wednesday, without Grove’s approval, that dropped chances of prison time to a max of one year in jail and reduced the charges to a misdemeanor if the child was 16 or 17.
“When I was standing at that podium I was shocked at what was happening, and I said, ‘Are you forcing these amendments on me?’ And the chair said, ‘Yes.’ And the audience, with all of our survivors in the background, gasped,” Grove told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Some of them cried out. They’re mortified. They are hurt. They feel like they’ve been assaulted all over again by what happened.”
The amendments also made it so that a person could face charges or pay a $10,000 fine and “buy their way out of a crime” if the victim was under 16 years old, Grove told the DCNF.
“I’ve thought through this process and I thought through any rational reason that they could have, but I think somebody just needs to ask them why they don’t want to put people in prison for buying children,” Grove said. “My mind cannot wrap around a rational reason not to do that.”
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Yep, there are too many short eyes in powerful places and they have deep pockets and long reaches.
Ideology over survival.
Now that we’ve begun normalizing changing your sex and the mutilation of children, the next logical step is normalization of pedophlia and this and indicative of that trend
It’s pure evil but not surprising
Not surprised at all.
She apparently doesn’t know her colleagues as well as she thought.
They are most likely pedos themselves.................
This is the kind of evil that Republicans should be running on, with huge public advertising (name the names). But there’s a bunch of RINO perverts that continue to go along to get along…. Don’t want to upset their “friends” on the other side of the aisle….
They are sick degenerates and perverts. Why else would they want to protect pedophiles. Anybody that does that to a child belongs in prison and in general population. The prisoners will deal with this scum in due time.
They're not even trying to hide their evil, anymore.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. John Adams
Next will be bestiality. The depravity will increase and only God can stop it.
Color me surprised..... NOT.
With many higher echelon folks being pervs themselves, gotta protect your peoples. Sodom and Gomorrah comes to mind.
They are f*@king idiots for trying. If you are traumatized you need to stand aside and let someone who is able, govern your constituents. There are support programs for you folks that are mentally challenged at even the mention of doing anything that will further the morals and ethics of the nation. You are releived of your duties and responsibilities.
Please, find and attend one of the afore mentioned programs.
Buh-by.
They’re pedophiles going after children. Weakening laws as they proceed to their end goal.
and here you have many countries that support child marriages and all the news reports is how evil it is and yes that is a form of child trafficking because there is something given in exchange. Ngo’s raising red flags, Amnesty International, or whatever groups are out there condemning sex trafficking ring hollow when this type of lowered expectations of criminal behavior occurs and minimized with light fines and relatively little jail time
Don’t know about anyone else, but I’m long millstones and rope.
Epstein didn’t kill himself.
Pizza doesn’t always refer to an Italian pie.
The halls of power and authority in the Republic are home to many pedophiles and other perverts.
How is soliciting defined in the proposed bill? If it means that a 16 or 17 year old can’t consent to sex even with an adult close in age I would agree with the change. If it means enticing, forcing, or otherwise getting that teen to engage in sexual acts those ages should be left in.
A pedophile would not be interested in a 16 or 17 year old. Unless they really looked much younger and were undeveloped.
Satan thrives in California
Is Weiner smiling and licking his chops?
Democrat governor Gavin Newsom signed this bill. He supports pedophiles. His wife sells a sex book to schools. He forces the schools to buy it by withholding money from the schools until they do. They have made millions with this sick scam.
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