The state Senate Public Safety Committee on Tuesday passed a bill that would allow child-abuse victims to testify on a closed-circuit TV outside the presence of a defendant. State Sen. Abel Maldonado authored the bill -- dubbed Cole's Law -- after a local molestation charge was dropped because a 4-year-old San Luis Obispo County boy was too scared to testify in front of the female defendant. "I've always said early on I want to help the voiceless and vulnerable," said Maldonado, R-Santa Maria. "This young individual, who is now 8 years old, inspired me to move this bill forward." In...