A Florida congresswoman has proposed new bills aimed at getting child sexual predators off the streets for good.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) introduced a number of bills that could result in convicted pedophiles facing the death sentence.
According to a report from Fox News, two of the three bills were introduced in the 119th Congress this week. They would require sentences of death or at least life imprisonment for those charged with a wide range of crimes related to children.
The third bill would require guilty verdicts of rape and sexual abuse against adults to carry a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years to life in prison.
“If you are raping someone, if you’re molesting someone, you are essentially murdering their soul. Those people never actually fully recover. I’ve actually sat on a committee with a very prominent [female House Democrat] who actually talked about the fact that she was molested as a child. And so you can see that it impacts and really hurts people,” Luna told the outlet.
Luna told Fox News Digital she brought up the topic with President-elect Donald Trump, who she suggested was enthusiastic about the idea.
“I got the impression that he absolutely is supportive of anything in this sector,” Luna said.
She said they also discussed Trump potentially signing an executive order levying the death penalty for pedophilia-related crimes but that it would likely be impossible to accomplish that way.
“He would be willing to sign an [executive order]. But the fact is, is that it has to go through Congress first. So it would have to come to his desk that way,” she said.
Luna initially introduced the bills in the last Congress when Democrats controlled half of Congress as well as the White House, though the bills failed to gain much traction. The Florida Republican said the death penalty likely turned off some potential supporters of the bill but asserted that child predators “cannot be rehabilitated.”
“If you are going to continue to push forward in a moral society, [then] you need to ensure that people like this, that are predators, are taken off the streets permanently,” Luna said.
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Need to be REALLY careful here. Is a 19 year-old who is having sex with a 16 year old a Pedophile? As ugly as it sounds, if this passes, they should give the choice of chemical castration (for men) as an option with a long jail sentence.