{"id":230207,"date":"2020-09-03T13:08:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T18:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=230207"},"modified":"2020-09-12T20:06:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T01:06:52","slug":"dangerous-california-bill-lowers-penalties-child-sex-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/dangerous-california-bill-lowers-penalties-child-sex-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"California Legislature passes bill to reduce penalties for sex offenders who prey upon children"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UPDATE, 9\/12\/20<\/strong>: California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed<\/a> SB 145 into state law.<\/p>\n

9\/3\/20<\/strong>: As Live Action’s Aiding Abusers investigation<\/a> showed, the abortion industry helps sex abusers\u00a0cover up their crimes<\/a>. Abortion organizations, and Planned Parenthood in particular, have been caught time and time again<\/a> refusing to report instances of child rape and abuse, instead committing abortions and sending victims back to their abusers. Under California law, minors of any age can consent<\/a> to abortion. Now, the California Legislature has approved a bill that would lessen penalties for sex offenders who prey upon children like these.<\/p>\n

California Senate Bill 145<\/a>\u00a0has passed both houses of the state legislature and is on its way to Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk for his signature. The bill has caused outrage across partisan lines.\u00a0Under SB 145, a judge would have discretion as to whether or not the offending adult would be placed on the sex offender registry, if the adult is within 10 years of age of the child. It gives sex abusers even more potential to escape accountability for preying on young children.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Planned Parenthood sponsors California bill to hide minors\u2019 abortions from parents<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The bill was introduced by Scott Weiner, a state senator from San Francisco, who claimed that existing state laws are discriminatory against LGBT youth. \u201cCalifornia\u2019s sex offender registry continues to draw that distinction \u2014 an antiquated, outdated, leftover distinction \u2014 that somehow oral sex is worse than vaginal sex,\u201d he said, as reported by Fox11 Los Angeles<\/a>. However, numerous politicians on both sides of the aisle argued fiercely against that claim.<\/p>\n

Lorenza Gonzalez, a Democrat assemblywoman representing southern San Diego, argued that it doesn’t matter if the sex in question is heterosexual or homosexual when it is between an adult and a child.<\/p>\n

“Any sex is sex. I don\u2019t care who it is between or what sex act it is,” she said. “That being said, I cannot in my mind as a mother understand how sex between a 24-year-old and a 14-year-old could ever be consensual, how it could ever not be a registerable offense,\u201d Gonzalez said, her voice cracking at times with emotion. \u201cWe should never give up on this idea that children are not, should be in any way subject to a predator. And that is what it is\u2026. Give me a situation where a 24-year-old had sex with a 14-year-old, any kind of sex, and it wasn\u2019t predatory. Any example and I have yet to see it.\u201d<\/p>\n