Sex trafficking could be reclassified as a violent felony in California under proposed legislation set to be heard next week.
“Everything wrong about California criminal law is laid out in our statutes pertaining to human trafficking: currently, trafficking children for sexual purposes is not considered a violent felony,” Assemblyman Joe Patterson (R-Rocklin) said in a release Jan. 11, the same day when he introduced the bill. “These perpetrators need to be held accountable and AB 229 will do just that.”
