[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 15]
[House]
[Pages 20175-20176]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                IN SUPPORT OF THE CHILDREN'S SAFETY ACT

  (Ms. HARRIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. HARRIS. Mr. Speaker, sometimes numbers paint a dramatic picture. 
According to a survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice, one 
in five children 10 to 17 years old are recipients of unwanted sexual 
solicitations online. One of every seven victims of sexual assault is 
under the age of 6. One in five girls will be sexually exploited before 
they reach adulthood. And one in 10 boys will become victims before 
they become men.
  According to the National Center For Missing and Exploited Children, 
the whereabouts of 100,00 to 150,000 of some 500,000 sexual offenders 
currently registered in the United States are unknown.
  What is known is that we are not powerless. I fully support the 
measures included in the Child Safety Act. The passage of this bill 
will do nothing to bring about the safe return of children like Carlie 
Brucia, a Sarasota Girl Scout who was brutally victimized and murdered 
by a sexual predator. However, it will save other families the most 
undeniable anguish of losing a child to the most unthinkable acts of 
violence.
  This bill takes commonsense steps toward ensuring sex offenders are 
not free to prey on the most vulnerable

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members of our society. H.R. 3132 will require States to alert other 
States when sexual offenders seek other locations.
  There are many, many things that keep parents awake at night. Passage 
of this bill should not be one of those.

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