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CNMI lawmakers highlight recent law expanding child-abuse definitions to cover voyeurism and recordings
Summary
Legislators said a multi-year effort led by Representative Marissa Flores updated child-abuse statutes to address phone-recording offenses and voyeurism. The change was developed with prosecutors and stakeholders; transcript did not specify the bill number.
Members of the CNMI legislature described a recently passed law that modernizes criminal definitions related to abuse and exploitation of minors.
Senate President Carl Neighbors credited Representative Marissa Flores with sponsoring a bill reworking antiquated language in child-abuse statutes. "We needed to redefine some of the language because it was antiquated. It also didn't have any language regarding voyeurism, so, like, recordings... Revenge…
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