Jessica Lunsford Act
Jessica Lunsford was taken from her home in the middle of the night by a man that had worked at her elementary school. She was kept alive for an unconfirmed amount of days, raped repeatedly, and then buried alive. The Jessica Lunsford Act proposes significant changes regarding sexual offenders and has already been passed in Florida. Below is a list of changes proposed by this act.
- Increase the penalty for lewd and lascivious molestation of a child to life in prison or a split sentence of mandatory minimum 25-year prison term. When releases their will be lifetime supervision with electronic monitoring.
- Increase the period of time a sexual predator must wait to petition for the sexual designation to be removed from 20 to 30 years.
- Increase the sexual predator/offender registration and reporting requirements.
- Sexual predators/offenders that murder their victims now qualifyfor the death penalty in capital cases.
- Designate failing to re-register as a sexual offender/predator, harboring a sexual offender/predator, or assisting a sexual offender/predator a third degree felony.
- Require those already convicted of sex crimes to have electronic monitoring for the remainder of their probation.
- Require all county misdemeanor probation officials to search the sexual offender registry when a new offender is assigned to them.
Jessica Lunsford’s father, Mark, is traveling across the country to educate everyone on the dangers of sexual offenders/predators. If you would like to support the Jessica Lunsford Act please visit the Jessica Marie Lunsford Foundation.
