5/8/25 UPDATE: With huge public outrage over Democrat legislators OPPOSING increased penalties for sex solicitors of 16- and 17-year-old prostitutes, their Assembly Speaker announced the felony charge for these “johns” would go back in AB 379 – as long as perps “within three years of the age of the minor” are EXCLUDED. And when AB 379 was amended on May 8, ONLY “a second or subsequent violation” is “punishable as a felony.” This is the half-baked scheming of the supermajority Democrat Party state legislators!

Our May 2 post:

Tell others Democrat politicians think it’s OK for children to be “sold for sex.” Because they’ve killed a bill to protect wayward teens!

The “sex worker” and “LGBTQIA+” lobby is controlling the Democrats! So they’re blocking a bill to crack down on soliciting 16- and 17-year-old prostitutes for sexual encounters.

Except for molestation and rape, they see all sex as “consensual,” no matter one’s age. Yes, too many of today’s Democrat Party politicians believe the lie that children can “consent” to sex. This is their sickening, ultimate goal.

Yet as more reasonable Californians wake up to this travesty, they’ll oppose the anti-children Democrats. As CalMatters noted, “California Republicans are increasingly pushing Democrats on child sex crimes bills. The supermajority is growing more divided about it.”

AB 379 would have done the following (before the Assembly Public Safety Committee’s hostile amendments functionally killed this bill on April 28):

16- and 17-year-old prostitutes would have been offered a diversion program upon the 1st or 2nd violation; otherwise, it’s would have been a misdemeanor.

Sex solicitors (“johns”) would have suffered tougher punishment:

a. Misdemeanor for loitering with the intent to “purchase commercial sex”

b. Felony for purchasing “sexual services” from anyone under the age of 18

c. Upon conviction, also fined $1,000 to go into a fund “to provide grants to community-based organizations that provide direct services and outreach to victims of sex trafficking and exploitation”

MORE FACTS:

• This is truly a crossover issue, as demonstrated by AB 379’s lead author being an ardent baby-killer, who still has compassion on teen prostitutes. Democrat Party Assemblywoman Maggy Krell’s bio proudly states she was Planned Parenthood’s attorney fighting “the Trump White House’s assault on reproductive freedom.”

• Despite Newsom saying on April 29 that “the law should treat all sex predators who solicit minors the same — as a felony, regardless of the intended victim’s age,” this is similar to what he did last year on this same issue. Yet he wouldn’t pretend to “care” if he weren’t planning to run for president in 2028. Proof: He could have gotten a legislator to author the same bill for him earlier this year, but he didn’t.

Deliver those who are drawn toward death,
And hold back those stumbling to the slaughter.
If you say, “Surely we did not know this,”
Does not He who weighs the hearts consider it?
He who keeps your soul, does He not know it?
And will He not render to each man according to his deeds?
The Bible, Proverbs 24:11-12