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MO - Lawmakers consider life without parole for some violent sex offenders

View the article here 01/27/2009 By Marshall Griffin, KWMU JEFFERSON CITY - A bill in the Missouri Senate would put some violent sex offenders away for life. Currently, someone who forcibly rapes or sodomizes a child that's eleven years old or younger gets life in prison, but is eligible for parole after serving 30 years. The new measure would give prosecutors the option of pursuing life without parole. Kerry Messer of the Missouri Family Network testified in favor of the bill at a Senate hearing Monday night. "No pedophile has ever been found in a corrections department to ever be corrected of that sexual deviancy...so letting them out at any time puts more victims at risk," Messer said. - Not all sex offenders who harm children, are pedophiles...continue to full post

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