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Guam - Vice Speaker Benjamin J.F. Cruz’s   Committee on Youth, Cultural Affairs, Procurement, General Government Operations and Public Broadcasting will be holding an Oversight Heating on Thursday July 12th beginning at 6pm to discuss the first report of the “Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Children.”

The Task Force created by Cruz’s Public Law 31-97 and known as the “The Lani Kate Protehi Y Famagu'on-ta Act” assembled stakeholders from throughout the community to recommend proposals for specific statutory changes and methods to foster cooperation among Government of Guam agencies and community-based organizations.

READ the report from the Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Children HERE

Cruz said, “In this term we have ended the statute of limitations on sex crimes against children and allowed the victims of child sexual abuse to identify their perpetrators and pursue justice long after the statute of limitations originally ran—but we have to do more.  I called this hearing and wrote this law because sex crimes against children are a community problem and every member of our community must be dedicated to preventing them”

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