AUGUSTA, Maine — A bill requiring notification of authorities when a child is missing, prompted by the Caylee Anthony case in Florida, has been overwhelmingly rejected by the Maine House.
Representatives voted 110-31 on Tuesday to kill a bill making it a crime to fail to report a missing child under 13 years of age or to fail to cooperate in the investigation of the death of a child.
The bill was prompted by the acquittal of Casey Anthony of murder in Florida in the case of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee Anthony. Maine lawmakers received hundreds of emails demanding a law addressing nonreporting on a missing child.
But opponents said that while the bill may have a feel-good effect, it poses serious constitutional problems. They said it violates the constitutional protection against self-incrimination.
Maybe not the answer the public wants but congratulations on finally thinking one through and not making an emotional decision that is unenforceable.
My thoughts too; EXACTLY!!
This is twice in one week, that you have agreed with me.
Aren’t you worried about it, Harry ?
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This time you agreed with me…. I was here first!
First ?
Agreement isn’t a mutual thing with commutative properties to you ?
That is odd.
But so it goes.
I am actually surprised by this, usually any knee jerking bill gets a lot of attention. But for this to be rejected, one of the fewest good decisions to come out of Augusta
People are fed up with crazy, knee jerk, emotional, faith based politics undermining
our rights and US Constitution .
“Representatives voted 110-31 on Tuesday to kill a bill making it a crime … or to fail to cooperate in the investigation of the death of a child.”
Wouldn’t this law have negated the The Fifth Amendment ?
The thirty odd people who voted for it should be run out of office for trying to
waste my tax dollars in the Federal Courts.
next time somebody’s child goes missing like Casey Anthony’s did, and ends up being murdered, and it turns out to be the parents involved, the house will think differently about their decision. but that is just my opinion.
Kids can’t vote. So politicians could care less about them.
Yea the same group of moonbats that approved Maine Law enforcement to use a stun gun on a 9 year old child,eh?
see link for full story
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/03/13/national/a051953D24.DTL&tsp=1
Ohio officer used stun gun on 9-year-old boy
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
An Ohio officer whose use of a stun gun on a child resulted in the shutdown of a village police force said he shocked the boy twice as the 9-year-old lay on the floor with his hands underneath his body.
Have you been pulled over one too many times? So far I see I shouldn’t go back to Santa Maria, and now I shouldn’t drive through Ohio to get there.
Usually the current legislature doesn’t give a hoot about the constitutional rights of Maine people. I am surprised at this.
Not reporting a child missing is a form of child abuse, IMO.
Any more than having their ears pierced?
God Bless america
This proves once again that politicians place no value on a child’s life. Much the same as all of the crimes against women, it seems that children have no chance in this world, when there are these pigheaded politicians that think only about red tape and staying to the previous mold. Maybe the Constitution needs to be ammended if we are openly allowed to abuse children and not take an active role in the disappearance of them.