Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., has unveiled a new set of bills that aims to make society safer for children by giving child sexual predators the death penalty.
“If you are raping someone, if you’re molesting someone, you are essentially murdering their soul,” Luna said.
“Those people never actually fully recover. I’ve actually sat on a committee with a very prominent [female House Democrat] who actually talked about the fact that she was molested as a child.”
“And so you can see that it impacts and really hurts people,” Luna said.
Two of her three bills, would require sentences of death or at least life imprisonment for those charged with sexual crimes against children.
A third bill would require guilty verdicts of rape against adults to carry a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years to life in prison.
Luna said he spoke to President-elect Donald Trump about the bills, who she suggested was enthusiastic about the idea.
“I got the impression that he absolutely is supportive of anything in this sector,” Luna said.
The Florida congresswoman met with Trump over the weekend at Mar-a-Lago along with other members of the House Freedom Caucus.
She said they also discussed Trump signing an executive order levying the death penalty for pedophilia.
“He would be willing to sign an [executive order]. But the fact is, is that it has to go through Congress first. So it would have to come to his desk that way,” she said.
Luna first introduced the bills in the last Congress, but failed to get traction.
She suggested that the death penalty aspect may have put some people off of an issue that otherwise could get wide bipartisan support.
However, she argued that pedophiles “cannot be rehabilitated.”
“If you are going to continue to push forward in a moral society, [then] you need to ensure that people like this, that are predators, are taken off the streets permanently,” Luna said.
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