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A California bill that would increase penalties for child sex trafficking and the solicitation of sex from minors has received backlash from activists claiming it would unfairly affect the LGBTQ community.
“I’d like to acknowledge the survivors here today and name that we all have the shared goal of protecting children from hard,” Isabella Borgeson, an outside policy fellow with the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights said. This bill would make this offense applicable only to a defendant who is 18 years of age or older at the time of the offense.
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