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Lawmakers introduce bills to shield child survivors and 'defendant-survivors' from retraumatization in court
Summary
Sen. Tawanna Nobles and House sponsors described bills aimed at protecting child witnesses and recognizing survivors who become criminal defendants; proposals include tools to avoid repeated trauma for child witnesses, mitigating factors at sentencing, resentencing and vacatur pathways.
Lawmakers and advocates described multiple bills at a press conference in Olympia intended to reduce court-related retraumatization for survivors and to create pathways for people criminalized while being exploited.
Senator Tawanna Nobles, sponsor of Senate Bill 5169, said the measure "gives courts better tools to protect children while still holding violent offenders accountable," allowing children’s voices to be heard…
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