Gray Rohrer
One year after signing legislation to allow the death penalty for those who sexually assault children, Gov. Ron DeSantis followed that up by signing a set of bills aimed at preventing those crimes from taking place.
“In Florida we stand for the well-being and innocence of our children,” DeSantis told reporters at a bill signing event in St. Petersburg. “We are going to crack down on the grooming of these minors.”
The five bills DeSantis signed were designed to prevent future assaults on children.
One bill (HB 1545) is aimed at increasing penalties in law for coaxing minors online, or “grooming” them into committing sexual acts. It makes it a third-degree felony to “engage in a pattern of communication to a minor that includes explicit and detailed verbal descriptions or narrative accounts of sexual activity, sexual conduct or sexual excitement and that is harmful to minors.”
Another measure (HB 1131) provides grants to local law enforcement agencies from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to set up online sting operations to catch predators.
“This whole online stuff is a major, major cesspool,” DeSantis said.
The other bills require stricter guidelines for sexual offenders to register where they live (HB 1235), boost authority for state’s Guardian ad Litem program helping foster children (SB 1224) and to allow hearsay evidence from 17-year-olds, up from the current threshold of 16-year-olds, to be presented at a trial over sexual abuse (HB 305).
“This year we have the ability to protect our most vulnerable, our youngest, our most innocent before they’re physically traumatized,” said Sen. Jonathan Martin, a Fort Myers Republican, one of the sponsors of the bills.
The new laws come four months after a State Attorney in Central Florida, Bill Gladson, announced he would be the first to seek the death penalty for a person accused of sexual battery on a minor. If the death penalty were to be issued, the case could draw a review from the U.S. Supreme Court, which has previously ruled the death penalty could only be given for murder.
7 comments
PeterH
April 10, 2024 at 1:15 pm
Welcome to Florida…… a sunny place and a magnet for shady people!
Earl Pitts "THE NEW MAYOR OF REALVILLE" American
April 10, 2024 at 6:05 pm
Thank you Gov. DeSantis,
Your Sage Anti-Pervert Legislation is being looked as the state’s and Federal model Nation–Wide to keep our Citizens Safe and Secure.
JUST A SAGE WARNING FOR THE LEFTISTS:
Most Perverts are Dook 4 Brains Leftists who intend to vote for whoever the Democrats run in place of DOOK 8IDEN ….. Therefore when we start locking 99.93% Democrats and just .07% Conservatives it will be Legal and Fair.
Thanks again to Ron for this sorely needed “SAGE NATION-WIDE TEMPLATE” to keep us all safe,
Earl Pitts American
Matt Gaetz And The HS Senior
April 11, 2024 at 8:09 am
A New Hampshire county chair for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign lost his job as a police officer in 2006 after he threatened to kill his colleagues and rape the police chief’s wife in retaliation for his suspension for having a relationship with an underage high school girl, according to an internal report released last week upon orders from the New Hampshire Supreme Court. The findings regarding former Claremont police officer Jonathan Stone, which came to light due to a right-to-know lawsuit filed by InDepthNH.org, appeared to catch Trump’s New Hampshire campaign chair, Stephen Stepanek, by surprise. “I just found out about it this morning,” he told Huffington Post Wednesday. “He’s been a Trump supporter for a long time, and he’s been a state representative, and he had, as far as we were concerned, what looked like a great background.” Stone, who won a seat in the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 2022, was terminated from the Claremont Police Department after making the threats. He would go on to work as a Vermont prison guard and would open a gun store, according to InDepthNH, and gave Trump an AR-15 during his 2016 campaign. Neither Stone nor the Trump campaign’s co-managers, Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, responded to queries from Huffington Post. Stepanek said a decision on Stone’s future with the campaign was pending: “I think it will be handled by Mar-a-Lago, in consultation with me.”
Dont Say FLA
April 10, 2024 at 4:09 pm
Can they still be President, though. And House Rep
Tom
April 11, 2024 at 8:45 am
No point shutting the gaetz after the wh0res have bolted as they say.
Christian Predatory Trumpers
April 11, 2024 at 6:09 am
A New Hampshire county chair for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign lost his job as a police officer in 2006 after he threatened to kill his colleagues and rape the police chief’s wife in retaliation for his suspension for having a relationship with an underage high school girl, according to an internal report released last week upon orders from the New Hampshire Supreme Court. The findings regarding former Claremont police officer Jonathan Stone, which came to light due to a right-to-know lawsuit filed by InDepthNH.org, appeared to catch Trump’s New Hampshire campaign chair, Stephen Stepanek, by surprise. “I just found out about it this morning,” he told Huffington Post Wednesday. “He’s been a Trump supporter for a long time, and he’s been a state representative, and he had, as far as we were concerned, what looked like a great background.” Stone, who won a seat in the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 2022, was terminated from the Claremont Police Department after making the threats. He would go on to work as a Vermont prison guard and would open a gun store, according to InDepthNH, and gave Trump an AR-15 during his 2016 campaign. Neither Stone nor the Trump campaign’s co-managers, Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, responded to queries from Huffington Post. Stepanek said a decision on Stone’s future with the campaign was pending: “I think it will be handled by Mar-a-Lago, in consultation with me.”
Joe
April 11, 2024 at 6:55 pm
Florida RepubliQans are the proven groomers, from top to bottom.
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