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DE - HB 136 takes aim at repeat sex offenders

View the article here 04/22/2009 STATEWIDE - Taking aim at repeat sex offenders, Rep. E. Bradford ?Brad? Bennett (Email) (D-Dover) filed legislation Wednesday that would establish enhanced penalties for registered sex offenders who commit a sex offense against a child under 12 years of age. Under House Bill 136, a person who has previously been convicted of a sex offense and is on the Delaware sex offender registry who then commits a sex offense against a child under 12 would face additional penalties. If the sex offender is charged with a misdemeanor sex offense, then the additional penalty would be a class C felony. If the offender is charged with a class C, D, E, F or G felony, then the enhanced penalty would be a class B felony. According to Delaware code, a class B felony carries a prison sentence range of two to 25 years, with the first two years of imprisonment being mandatory...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on April 22, 2009 (boomark / email).