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Newsom Signs Bill Removing Automatic Penalty for 'Consensual' Sex Acts Involving Minors


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Newsom Signs Bill Removing Automatic Penalty for 'Consensual' Sex Acts Involving Minors

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Posted: Sep 12, 2020 4:00 PM
 
 
 
Newsom Signs Bill Removing Automatic Penalty for 'Consensual' Sex Acts Involving Minors

Source: AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli

 

On Friday, Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law, passed by the Democrat-controlled state senate and Democrat-controlled state assembly, that reduces penalties for certain adults who engage in sex acts with children as young as 14 years of age. The law makes it more likely that parents won't know when a sex offender has access to their children. 

 

SB-145 removes the automatic requirement for a person to register as a sex offender when "convicted of nonforcible sodomy with a minor, oral copulation with a minor, or sexual penetration with a minor," so long as the child is at least 14 years of age and the adult is not older than the child by more than 10 years when the sex crime took place, according to Senate Floor Analysis. With the automatic requirement to register as a sex offender removed, only a judge can impose the requirement as part of the sentencing. Judges routinely spark outrage for incredibly lenient sentences involving sex crimes against children.

 

The bill is being touted as pro-LGBT legislation because it ends what supporters of the legislation are calling long-standing discrimination against the LGBT community. Supporters of the bill say the automatic requirement was discriminatory against *** people because a 24-year-old adult who was convicted of "consensual" oral and anal sex acts with a 15-year-old minor was previously required to register as a sex offender. But if the same-aged adult and minor had engaged in penile-vaginal sex, the offending adult would not be automatically required to register. 

 

But if protecting children from predators is somehow discriminatory against *** people, what does that say about the LGBT community? 

 

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Rather than impose the automatic requirement on adults who have penile-vaginal sex with minors, the lawmaker who introduced the bill -- state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco -- chose to reduce the penalty on sex offenders instead. The automatic requirement was a safety measure to protect children by mandating sex offenders register on the list, regardless of whatever judge may be overseeing the case. 

 

SB-145 makes it more likely that parents won't know when a sex offender is living next door. 

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