We will make the law clearer on parents' liability for failing to prevent their child being subjected to FGM, and we are working to improve the police response.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the areas where FGM is going down, it has been addressed in a violence against women framework. It's a gender power control issue, and it is not something you can just educate people out of. It requires people to think that if they do it, there are ramifications. We cannot just rely on people's good will.
Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done carefully.
The Children's Safety Act will help protect children from the perpetrators of these vile crimes by strengthening notification requirements for sex offenders and increasing criminal penalties.
If the police need more help to do their work, I will not hesitate in granting it to them.
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
Child Protective Services, all over the country, need to be revamped top to bottom.
We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.
Responsibility for the proper conduct of children was not confined to their parents only. When they misbehaved, they misbehaved against the community. And a senior member of the community was expected to do something about it.
I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles.
The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment.
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