SEDUCTION OF KIDS ON NET TARGETED.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - Assemblyman George Runner George C. Runner, Jr. (born March 25 1952 in Scotia, New York) is a Republican California State Senator, who represents the 17th Senate District, which includes portions of Los Angeles County, San Bernardino County and Ventura County. has proposed stiffening stiff·en tr. & intr.v. stiff·ened, stiff·en·ing, stiff·ens To make or become stiff or stiffer. stiff the state law that targets adults who try to meet children through the Internet. Current state law only applies to children age 12 or younger. Offenders can be charged with either an infraction Violation or infringement; breach of a statute, contract, or obligation. The term infraction is frequently used in reference to the violation of a particular statute for which the penalty is minor, such as a parking infraction. INFRACTION. , which carries no jail time, or a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail. ``It's unheard of Not heard of; of which there are no tidings. Unknown to fame; obscure. - Glanvill. See also: Unheard Unheard that adults who lure innocent children away from their homes get away with a slap on the wrist,'' Runner, R-Lancaster, said. Runner's Assembly Bill 501 would make it illegal for an adult to communicate with a child 15 or younger with the intent to lure the child to a location without parental consent. First offenders could be sentenced to up to a year in jail and repeat offenders to state prison. Runner introduced his bill Wednesday. Its first committee hearing is expected sometime next month. Runner noted that state law now does not cover incidents like the disappearance last week of a 15-year-old Alhambra girl whose family believed she was lured away by someone she met on the Internet. The girl turned up safe Wednesday in Dayton, Ohio. Locally, a Palmdale assistant principal is awaiting trial on federal charges of using ``a facility of interstate commerce interstate commerce In the U.S., any commercial transaction or traffic that crosses state boundaries or that involves more than one state. Government regulation of interstate commerce is founded on the commerce clause of the Constitution (Article I, section 8), which to attempt to induce a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity.'' The FBI said Clifford Doty, 40, who is on paid leave from his job at Quail Valley School, sent child pornography Child pornography is the visual representation of minors under the age of 18 engaged in sexual activity or the visual representation of minors engaging in lewd or erotic behavior designed to arouse the viewer's sexual interest. to an Internet correspondent who claimed to be a 13-year-old girl but was really a San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy. |
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