Muschany co-sponsored bill to increase penalties for adults having sex with children

Rep. Scott Muschany, R-Frontenac, may have foreseen a time when society would have to be protected from...well...people like Rep. Scott Muschany.

Muschany who has been indicted by a grand jury for an alleged deviate sexual assault of a 14-year-old daughter of a state employee, co-sponsored Rep. Steve Tilley's bill in 2006, which called for increased penalties for adults found guilty of having sex with children. The summary of HB 1236 follows:

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3) Creates the crime of statutory rape in the third degree when a person older than 21 years of age has sexual intercourse with a person younger than 17. The crime will be a class C felony unless the offender is older than 30, in which case it will be a
class B felony;

(4) Creates the crime of statutory sodomy in the third degree when a person older than 21 years of age has deviate sexual
intercourse with a person younger than 17. The crime will be a class C felony unless the offender is older than 30, in which
case it will be a class B felony;

A watered down version of the bill passed without those changes. Muschany, it might be added, is 42 years old.
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