Bill Text: GA HR1242 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: End the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Day; Feb. 1, 2012; recognize
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2012-02-01 - House Read and Adopted [HR1242 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2011-HR1242-Introduced.html
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House
Resolution 1242
By:
Representatives Brockway of the
101st,
Lindsey of the
54th,
Sheldon of the
105th,
O`Neal of the
146th,
Ashe of the
56th,
and others
A
RESOLUTION
Recognizing
February 1, 2012, as End the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Day at
the capitol; and for other purposes.
WHEREAS,
the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) is a horrific crime
perpetrated by adult men and women who abuse children through prostitution;
and
WHEREAS,
Georgia is the first state to have begun scientifically tracking the number of
adolescent girls victimized by CSEC; and
WHEREAS,
according to the Georgia Governor's Office for Children and Families, the number
of CSEC victims doubled from approximately 250 to almost 500 girls each month
from late 2007 to early 2010; and
WHEREAS,
according to A Future.
Not A Past., a scientific study of men who
buy sex with young females, 7,200 men pay for sex with adolescent females each
month in Georgia, accounting for 8,700 paid sex acts, and a significant portion
of these men are repeat customers; and
WHEREAS,
hundreds of grassroots activists will gather at the capitol on February 1, 2012,
to raise awareness about the need to end the commercial sexual exploitation of
children in Georgia; and
WHEREAS,
Street GRACE, A
Future. Not A Past., and Wellspring Living
have worked together to organize and empower tens of thousands of grassroots
activists across the State of Georgia to end CSEC; and
WHEREAS,
after several years of developing a first-of-its-kind coordinated state-wide
effort to end CSEC, Georgia is the first state under study to begin seeing a
systematic decline in the number of adolescent CSEC victims;
and
WHEREAS, the State of Georgia has significantly improved its criminal justice system response to the crime of human trafficking with the passage of HB 200 in the 2011 session of the Georgia General Assembly.
WHEREAS, the State of Georgia has significantly improved its criminal justice system response to the crime of human trafficking with the passage of HB 200 in the 2011 session of the Georgia General Assembly.
NOW,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that the members of
this body recognize February 1, 2012, as End the Commercial Sexual Exploitation
of Children Day at the capitol.
BE
IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized
and directed to transmit an appropriate copy of this resolution to Street GRACE,
A Future. Not A
Past., and Wellspring Living.
