What a great partner I have found in the National Association to Protect Children (PROTECT), a non-partisan group dedicated to the protection of children from abuse, exploitation, and neglect. I want you to know about them and I want you to get involved.
I got to know PROTECT almost four years ago when they sponsored my SB 33 – the bill that successfully closed the incest loophole in California. Up until that point in California, if you sexually molested a child under 16 years of age, you went to prison for 6 to 16 years. UNLESS the child was your own, or your stepchild, or even if you had a "famial" relationship – THEN you could get probation, and even were reunified with your victim (meaning daddy came home to molest again). An insane law if there ever was one.
Incidentally, the original, terrible, law was signed by then Governor Jerry Brown
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