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Guam Legislature advances bill to criminalize interference with reporting sexual assaults
Summary
The Legislature moved Bill 1-37(38COR) to third reading after legislators debated adding definitions for assisting or abetting. An amendment to define assisting or abetting failed; the main bill was advanced without that change.
Vice Speaker Tony Atta moved to place Bill 1‑37(38COR) on the third‑reading file, proposing to add subsections to Title 9 of the Guam Code Annotated to make it a crime to interfere with reporting criminal sexual‑conduct offenses. The measure models its language on existing family‑violence reporting laws and would create parallel offenses in the criminal sexual‑conduct and assault statutes.
The bill’s author, Vice Speaker Tony Atta, said the proposal “is constructed identically … to the laws that make interfering with reporting a family violence a criminal offense,” and cited national and local estimates that many sexual assaults go unreported. “We can’t have justice for…
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