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From the Baltimore Sun
Senate OKs tough bill to punish pedophiles


Associated Press

July 21, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Convicted child molesters would face the death penalty for
killing their victims and a felony charge for failing to update their
whereabouts with authorities under a bill the Senate approved yesterday.

The bill, designed to help police find more than 100,000 such sex offenders by
creating an Internet-posted national database, also increases minimum sentences
for those who travel between states.

The Senate approved the measure on a voice vote. The House of Representatives
is to consider it next week, and President Bush is expected to sign the bill
into law.

"Sex offenders have run rampant in this country, and now Congress and the
people are ready to respond with legislation that will curtail the ability of
sex offenders to operate freely," said Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, a Utah Republican,
who co-authored the legislation with Sen. Byron L. Dorgan, a North Dakota
Democrat.

"We track library books better than we track sex offenders. This evens the
score," said Rep. Mark Foley, a Florida Republican, a sponsor in the House.

Debate was tearful from the start as the Senate considered the bill named for
Adam Walsh, the murdered son of America's Most Wanted host John Walsh. He
watched from the gallery as senators thanked him for years of lobbying for such
a measure. July 27 is the 25th anniversary of the abduction of Adam, 6, and his
subsequent murder.

"This has to be bittersweet for him," said Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., a Delaware
Democrat, choking up as he made a rare reference to his infant daughter Amy,
who was killed in a 1972 car crash.

Child advocates have called the bill the most sweeping sex offender legislation
to target pedophiles in years. It would:

? Establish a comprehensive federal DNA database of material collected from
convicted molesters, and procedures for the routine DNA collection and
comparison to the database when someone has been convicted of such an offense.

? Provide federal funding for states to track pedophiles using global
positioning devices.

? Allow victims of child abuse to sue their molesters.

? Impose a mandatory minimum sentence for raping a child.

? Impose a mandatory 10-year penalty for sex trafficking offenses involving
children and for coercing child prostitution.

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