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VT - Senate passes sex offender bill

View the article here 02/26/2009 By Terri Hallenbeck - Free Press Staff Writer MONTPELIER -- With a few tweaks, the Senate approved sex offender legislation Wednesday and sent it back to the House, which could sign off on it as soon as today. That will put the much-anticipated bill on the governor's desk before the Legislature breaks for town meeting. The legislation, designed to strengthen Vermont's sex offender prevention, prosecution and punishment, comes in response to last summer's death of 12-year-old Brooke Bennett of Braintree. Her uncle, Michael Jacques of Randolph, is suspected of raping and killing her. He had a lengthy record that raised an outcry over why he was free and launched a call for tougher laws. As the bill reached its likely final form, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Sears, D-Bennington, said he believes it creates among the toughest sex crimes laws in the country...continue to full post

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