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The Mississippi Senate is considering a bill that would hold child victimizers accountable, and we need your help to get it passed.

HB 1363, sponsored by Rep. Price Wallace, is about protecting the victims of child sexual abuse material and other forms of illegal obscenity. The bill is currently before the Senate Judiciary A Committee under Chairman Brice Wiggins. The committee must pass the bill before April 2.

That’s why we need your help. Please call and email your Mississippi state senator today and ask them to encourage Lt. Governor Delbert Hosemann to pass this important bill.

The House has already passed HB 1363. The Senate Judiciary A Committee must act or the bill will die.

The reason HB 1363 is so necessary is because child sexual abuse goes way beyond a single crime. When a child is abused and images or videos made of that abuse, those images can circulate on the internet for years, re-victimizing children, over and over again.

HB 1363 would allow parents and others to sue websites that publish child sexual abuse material and other forms of victimization material. For the record, we are talking about content that is ALREADY ILLEGAL under federal law and Mississippi state law. Criminal convictions for abuse are one thing – and harder to get than any of us would like. This bill creates civil liability – the ability to sue for monetary damages – for obscene websites.

Of course, these websites are already breaking the law. But they are getting away with it because busy prosecutors can’t go after every case of obscenity and child victimization material. We need another tool to stop this harmful and degrading material from being published on the internet.

Please call your Mississippi state senator today and ask them to support HB 1363. Ask them, not just to vote for it, but to beg Senate leadership to protect vulnerable kids. This bill must pass the Senate Judiciary A Committee before April 2. Please email and call before it’s too late.

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