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Children's Safety Act of 2005

Date: Sept. 14, 2005
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Women Criminal Justice


CHILDREN'S SAFETY ACT OF 2005 -- (House of Representatives - September 14, 2005)

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Mrs. SCHMIDT. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Sensenbrenner) for yielding me this time. I appreciate the gentleman's work on this important legislation that will help protect our Nation's children.

Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of H.R. 3132, the Children's Safety Act. As we are hearing today, there is an epidemic of violence against our Nation's children. Almost weekly we hear of another tragic report of sex offenders preying on children. We all remember Jessica Lunsford, age 9, who was buried alive and murdered. Jessica's mother lives in my congressional district.

Tragically, one in five girls and 1 in 10 boys is sexually assaulted before adulthood. One of every six sexual assault victims is under the age of 6.

This is an issue that is very important to me. My home State of Ohio has made significant improvements to its sex offender registration and notification system. As a legislator in the Ohio General Assembly, I authored legislation, now Ohio law, that requires law enforcement to notify neighbors who live within a thousand feet of a sexual predator. I sought this change from prior law after a sexual predator moved across the street from a school bus stop in my district.

Mr. Chairman, I ask that this bipartisan legislation be unanimously passed.

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