Posted: | July 2, 2018 11:27 AM |
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From: | Representative Mark Rozzi |
To: | All House members |
Subject: | Co-Sponsorship - Clarifying that Parental Rights Can be Terminated for Conceptions that are the Result of Statutory Sexual Assault. |
In the near future, I plan to introduce legislation which would clarify that the parental rights of a parent can be terminated if the parent conceived a child as the result of statutory sexual assault. Under current law, parental rights can be terminated if a child is conceived as the result of rape or incest. In 1995, what used to be known as “statutory rape” was repealed and replaced with “statutory sexual assault,” but unfortunately a corresponding change was not made to our termination of parental rights statute. This legislation will make clear that statutory sexual assault is grounds for the termination of parental rights. Thank you in advance for joining me as a sponsor of this important legislation. |