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State Representative Donna Lichtenegger

Several Important Bills Reported to the Senate

Posted Friday, February 5, 2016, at 3:26 PM
House Bill 1562 -sexual trafficking legislation- enjoyed bi-partisan support. It is hard to imagine this evil in our own “back yard” but apparently it is. This bill adds knowingly advertising a specified minor to participate in a commercial sex act, performance, or the production of explicit sexual material to the offenses of sexual trafficking of a child in the first degree, sexual trafficking of a child in the second degree, sexual trafficking of a child, and sexual trafficking of a child under the age of 12. ...
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