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Missouri Legislation - UPDATED

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Today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch carries an OpEd by Tammy Gwaltney, executive director of the Southeast Missouri Network Against Sexual Violence, "Proposed bill would hurt abused children even more."The Missouri Legislature is considering a bill, SB 1194, which would allow the death penalty for individuals who commit acts of forcible rape or sodomy of children under the age of 12. On the surface, this seems to be a logical response to the most heinous of acts perpetrated upon children, but further analysis will bring us to a very different conclusion. As a child advocate and the director of a child advocacy center, I have seen more than 3,200 victims of sexual violence. I have learned to see the world through the eyes of children ? children who are victims of sexual abuse...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 29, 2008 (boomark / email).