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  2. Child sexual abuse laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Child sexual abuse has been recognized specifically as a type of child maltreatment in U.S. federal law since the initial Congressional hearings on child abuse in 1973. [1] Child sexual abuse is illegal in every state, [2] as well as under federal law. [3] Among the states, the specifics of child sexual abuse laws vary, but certain features of ...

  3. United States Federal Sentencing Guidelines - Wikipedia

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    The Guidelines are the product of the United States Sentencing Commission, which was created by the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. [3] The Guidelines' primary goal was to alleviate sentencing disparities that research had indicated were prevalent in the existing sentencing system, and the guidelines reform was specifically intended to provide for determinate sentencing.

  4. Laws regarding child sexual abuse - Wikipedia

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    This Act includes definitions and penalties for child sexual abuse offences, and (so far as relating to offences) applies to England and Wales and Northern Ireland. The Scottish Law Commission published its review of rape and sexual offences in December 2007, which includes a similar consolidation and codification of child sexual abuse offences ...

  5. Removal of time limit for abuse payout claims a ‘watershed ...

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    Kim Harrison, a lawyer who represented survivors at IICSA, said the time limit – which currently requires civil child sexual abuse claims to be brought within three years of the victim turning ...

  6. Juvenile sex offenders in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Sexual victimization of juveniles plays a strong role in developing their sexually abusive behavior. According to an analysis of the relationship between sexual behavior problems and child sexual abuse done by Darkness to Light, children who have been sexually abused have more than three times as many sexual behavior problems as children who have not been sexually abused. [4]

  7. Former Robins Air Force Base daycare workers get jail time ...

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    Both of them assisted the government in its child abuse investigation at Robins Air Force Base so their sentence was reduced from 12 months to six with three years of supervised release, according ...

  8. Delayed justice: 3 states remove all time limits on child sex ...

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    Ann Allen loved going to church and the after-school social group led by a dynamic priest back in the 1960s. Each week, the Rev. Lawrence Sabatino chose one girl to hide with him. Allen, 64, is ...

  9. PROTECT Act of 2003 - Wikipedia

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    The PROTECT Act of 2003 (Pub. L. 108–21 (text), 117 Stat. 650, S. 151, enacted April 30, 2003) is a United States law with the stated intent of preventing child abuse as well as investigating and prosecuting violent crimes against children.