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

SB 2041, sponsored by Senator Paul Rose, is about protecting the victims of child sexual abuse material and other forms of illegal obscenity. The bill is currently before the Senate Judiciary Committee. After repeated delays, the committee is scheduled to take up the bill on April 1.

That’s why we need your help. Please call and email your Tennessee state senator today and ask them to encourage Senate leadership to pass this important bill.

The House has already passed a companion bill, HB 2159, sponsored by Rep. Jody Barrett. The Senate has not acted yet.

The reason SB 2041 is so necessary is because child sexual abuse goes way beyond a single act. When a child is abused and images or films made of that abuse, those images can circulate on the internet for years, re-victimizing children, over and over again.

SB 2041 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 Tennessee 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 and email your Tennessee state senator today and ask them to support SB 2041. Ask them, not just to vote for it, but to beg Senate leadership to protect vulnerable kids. This bill is supposed to come before the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 1. Please email and call before it’s too late.

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