Wash. Senate passes child sex trafficking bills
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington state Senate has unanimously passed a pair of bills meant to crack down on child sex trafficking.
The first measure passed Monday would impose a $5,000 fine on top of existing penalties for those using online ads to facilitate the commercial sexual abuse of a child. That money would go toward state efforts to prevent and stop prostitution.
The second bill would expand the definition of "communication with a minor for immoral purposes" to include buying and selling sex acts and engaging in sex trafficking. It would also increase penalties for clients of child prostitutes and add trafficking and commercial sexual abuse of a child to the list of sex offenses requiring sex-offender registration.
Both measures will go next to the House.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.
The pimps and others promoting sex trafficking should be sentenced to life without parole, at hard labor...none of this babying that is done in prisons now. No tv's or phones or computers...just hard work and cell time for the rest of their lives...might just encourage some to give it up. And "an additional $5000 fine"? Who is going to pay that fine...the welfare department or ???? Most of these types have no other income or property, like drug pushers...so fining them will have no effect except in how much taxes the rest of us have to pay to cover the 'fines'.