Rep. James Fagan, a Democrat, made the comments during debate last month on the state House floor.
“I’m gonna rip them apart,” Fagan said of young victims during his testimony on the bill. "I’m going to make sure that the rest of their life is ruined, that when they’re 8 years old, they throw up; when they’re 12 years old, they won’t sleep; when they’re 19 years old, they’ll have nightmares and they’ll never have a relationship with anybody.”
edit: for those of you who cant view the video, hes talking about child rape victims and what hell do to them if he has to defend the rapist
hes right if you mandate sentencing for a conviction more people will goto trial and defense attorneys will put the child on the stand and rip them apart. the goal is to get the person responsible behind bars for as long as possible with the least ammount of involvment for the child, they went through enough during the crime and you dont want them to go through it again. the better perposal would be for defense attorneys to not take these cases where the rapist is known to have done it, but money talks.
i agree that he does have a point, but it doesnt plead his cause when he rants it like that. the girls dad made an excellent point when he said “why doesnt he use all this ambition to HELP the victims vs the defendents” i take special offense to these sort of scum that defend people like this