New federal bill could protect child sex trafficking victims from life sentences
. Bruce Westerman introduced a federal bill that aims to protect child victims of trafficking or sexual assault who commit crimes against their abusers from spending most of their lives in adult prisons.
Westerman says the fact that trafficked children have been “victimized in some of the worst ways you can imagine” before they harm their abusers is often overlooked in the court. James Dold, the Founder of Human Rights for Kids, says Brown and other children like her need to be seen primarily as victims. “These girls are not trying to make money and scam people,” he said. “They are girls who were terrorized and abused their whole lives and nobody gave a damn about them.”
One night in a Riverside, California, motel room, after five years of abuse, she shot Howard. Rather than being put in the juvenile system, where Kruzan would have been released at 21, she was sentenced to life in prison by a judge who said the teen lacked “moral scruples.” The continued practice of locking these children away is a human rights abuse, and it needs to end now. James Dold, the Founder of Human Rights for Kids
Sara’s Law would allow judges to ignore mandatory minimum sentences for child trafficking or sexual assault victims who harm their abusers, suspend any portion of their sentence or, at the state level, keep them in the juvenile system, which focuses more on rehabilitation than punishment.
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