Arizona, USA – The House of Representatives has passed a bill making the possession, trafficking, or importation of a sex doll that resembles an infant or child a fourth-degree felony in Arizona.
HB2169 It passed the House unanimously on Monday. A vote will take place one week after the bill passes the Senate.
The dolls in question have been found across the country, with three found in Pinal County.
In the wake of a dossier filed by the FBI in February, Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lam and Pinal County Attorney Kent Volkmer urged the bill’s proponent, Rep. Quang Nguyen, to inform him of the trend. urged.
“We live in a civilized country, but there is no room for this kind of product anywhere, especially in our great state of Arizona,” Nguyen said.
Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb said in March that the bill was a step in the right direction to give Arizona law enforcement and prosecutors the tools they need to protect children.
“We need to do everything we can to make it impossible for pedophiles to harm children,” Lam said.
Dead. Julia Stoltz is currently an Internet Crime Against Children investigator for the Sheriff’s Office.
“When it comes to child sex dolls, it’s just a 3D physical representation of child sexual abuse material,” Stoltz said.
Storz said these cases are among the most difficult to investigate, but the rewards of putting perpetrators in prison are indescribable, and the law provides a new way to do so.
“We know we can help victims, and this is just another way to do that, because these perpetrators will continue to do these things until they can have their actual children. because it uses dolls from
The bill defines a child sex doll as an anatomically correct doll, mannequin, or robot with the characteristics of an infant or child under the age of 12 for the purpose of sexual stimulation or gratification.
The bill will then move to the desk of Governor Katie Hobbs, who will decide whether to sign it into law.
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