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ON-LINE PREDATORS COULD SERVE MANDATORY PRISON TERM
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 -- 11:28 am
Posted by Riley Hebert-News Director
A group of lawmakers in the state Assembly want to get tough on criminals who use computers to commit sex crimes against children.
"We're going to try to do what we did for Jessica's Law, for child molesters," says Rep. Scott Suder (R-Abbotsford). "If you're caught doing this and you're convicted, you go away for at least a minimum of five years."
Suder has joined Republicans Mark Honadel of South Milwaukee and Robin Vos of Caledonia to call for a mandatory prison sentence for computer-related sex crimes involving a minor.
"It doesn't matter whether you're doing it through cyberspace or in person, if you're harming a child in this fashion, you are going to prison without parole," he says.
Suder, who also backed a law requiring lifetime tracking for the most serious sex offenders, says this measure should have more teeth than it does.
"I would prefer 20 years, to be honest," he says. "But we decided we'd do five and be in line with other states."
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