CA Dems Block Bill That Would Make Human Trafficking of a Minor a Serious Felony

[Kamaji]

CA Dems Block Bill That Would Make Human Trafficking of a Minor a Serious Felony

By Jennifer Van Laar
July 11, 2023

Democrats on the California Assembly’s Public Safety committee have made some terrible votes this session, which is saying a lot given the number of bad bills the supermajority has passed. This year, while the state is in the midst of a surge in violent crime and fentanyl deaths they’ve blocked bills which would classify domestic violence as a violent crime and increase penalties for fentanyl dealers, seemingly because Republicans either sponsored them or heavily supported them.

That streak of terrible votes continued Tuesday when the committee blocked SB 14, which would have made human trafficking of a minor a serious felony in the state. The bill cleared the state Senate with bipartisan support back in April, but none of the Assembly Public Safety Committee’s six Democrats voted to move it out of committee. Of the two Republicans, the only one in attendance, Asm. Tom Lackey, voted yes.

As KCRA’s Capitol correspondent Ashley Zavala wrote, a victim sobbed in the audience as the bill died.

No Democrats were willing to vote on the bill. The one yes came from Republican Assemblyman Tom Lackey, the other Republican, Assemblyman Juan Alanis, was not in the room.

The bill was granted reconsideration, meaning it could pick back up again next year.

— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) July 11, 2023

Why the big shift in support? Even Sen. Scott Wiener, the Democrat who’s infamous for pushing legislation that would harm minor children, voted for it in the CA Senate. Could the hubbub around the movie “Sound of Freedom,” which does an incredible job of exposing just how prevalent the sexual trafficking of minors is worldwide and highlights the United States as the largest consumer in this abominable industry, have played a role? After all, over the last two weeks there’s been a steady stream of media declaring that the only people who really believe that the sexual trafficking of minors is happening on a large scale are those who believe in QAnon conspiracies. So if the Democrats in Sacramento passed this bill, they could be seen as giving credibility to the issue – even though they heard from actual victims during their hearing (and re-victimized them with their vote).

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Source:  https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2023/07/11/ca-dems-block-bill-that-would-make-human-trafficking-of-a-minor-a-serious-felony-n774872

[Kamaji]

So the democrats are willing to put themselves on record as favoring groomers and pedophiles over little children.

[SZonian]

So the democrats are willing to put themselves on record as favoring groomers and pedophiles over little children.

They have for decades as the pro-abort party, so what's a few more broken eggs? Children are nothing more than a commodity to them.  To be raised up as the next generation of social justice/socialist/communist warriors...assuming they make it out of the womb. They simply don't care about the kids welfare/well-being.

[Free Vulcan]

They have for decades as the pro-abort party, so what's a few more broken eggs? Children are nothing more than a commodity to them.  To be raised up as the next generation of social justice/socialist/communist warriors...assuming they make it out of the womb. They simply don't care about the kids welfare/well-being.

The Rats bedding up with their Globalist masters are in so deep with this demonic child sex trafficking and even Moloch style child sacrifice, that this has become the result - legislators and even mainstream media covering up and facilitating their networks, and blocking any attempt to stop it.

We are far beyond the looking glass now.

[Fishrrman]

G-R-O-O-M-E-R-S ...

[PeteS in CA]

Why the big shift in support? Even Sen. Scott Wiener, the Democrat who’s infamous for pushing legislation that would harm minor children, voted for it in the CA Senate. ...

Besides the obvious, this is what is bizarre to me. There is little perversion that Scott Wiener has not tried, often with sickening success, to protect. This reversal of support has the definite foul stench of, "The "wrong" people oppose sex trafficking," and, "Because normal people hate sex trafficking."

[mystery-ak]

California Democrats Block Bill To Lock Up Repeat Child Sex Traffickers: Prison Is Not the Answer

Susannah Luthi   
July 12, 2023


California Democrats on Tuesday killed a bipartisan bill to strengthen punishments for repeat traffickers of minors, continuing a years-long push to empty prisons.

The legislation, Senate Bill 14, would classify trafficking of children and teenagers younger than 18 years old as a serious felony on par with murder, arson, and rape, which would bring longer prison terms and potential life sentences without a chance for a plea bargain. The six Democrats on the Assembly Public Safety Committee abstained from voting on the bill, preventing its advance for a vote by the full chamber. Both Republicans voted yes.

"All [longer sentences] do is increase our investments in systems of harm and subjugation at the expense of the investments that the communities needed to not have this be a problem to begin with," said Democratic committee member Isaac Bryan during the hearing.

The Democrats' downvote came even as local leaders and anti-trafficking activists across California have warned that sex trafficking is surging since the state in January decriminalized loitering with the intent to commit prostitution in the name of transgender rights. The Public Safety Committee has killed a number of proposals this session meant to address rising crime—including a previous bill to sharpen penalties for sex trafficking. Progressive members of the panel have for years worked to ease punishments for criminals and reduce prison populations.

more
https://freebeacon.com/california/california-child-sex-trafficking-bill/

[DefiantMassRINO]

 

No, prisons are not the answer ... but woodchippers are.

[PeteS in CA]

No, prisons are not the answer ... but woodchippers are.
...

Feet first, so genitals go inside before the heads.

Maybe there's another "explanation" for this, but I don't see how this insane move is unrelated to the popularity of "Sound of Freedom" and the people who starred in it and produced it. Jim Caviezel and Angel Studios are the very "wrong sort of people" to Progs , especially Hollyweird Progs and their lapdog Prog pols.

[PeteS in CA]

CA Legislators Reverse Course on Child Trafficking Sentencing

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/lincolnbrown/2023/07/14/ca-legislators-reverse-course-on-child-trafficking-sentencing-n1710624

It does not happen often. In fact, it is probably more rare than the appearance of Halley’s Comet. Many people go their entire lives without witnessing such an event. But every once in a while Democrats admit when they’re wrong. You should be thankful such an occasion occurred in your lifetime. You can tell the grandkids about it.

After a disastrous move that gave people across the nation yet another reason to be irate at the Golden State, the California Assembly’s Public Safety Committee voted to move SB-14 out of committee. The bill makes the trafficking of minors a serious felony and under the state’s “three strikes” law would put convicted people in jail without the possibility of early release.

The Center Square noted that, originally, the all-Democrat committee had voted to halt the bill’s progress. Assembly Majority Leader Isaac Bryan of Los Angeles stated, “Longer sentences…increase our investment in systems of harm and subjugation at the expense of the investments that the communities need to not have this problem to begin with.” Bryan originally voted against the bill on July 12 and abstained from Thursday’s vote. The rationale was that harsher prison sentences do not deter crime.

1. A jailed trafficker won't be trafficking kids while (s)he is in prison.

2. Some criminals do take risk of consequences into account in choosing their crimes and where they commit them. So this law would probably decrease sex trafficking in CA.

But you all already knew these common sense facts.

[sneakypete]

That really just defines imagination.

How the HELL can anybody justify casting a vote like that one?

[sneakypete]

So the democrats are willing to put themselves on record as favoring groomers and pedophiles over little children.

@Kamaji

Well,pedophiles and groomers not only vote,they make campaign contributions.
Little children don't.

Well,little children DO vote in Dim states. So do dead people and imaginary people.