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Archive Home > 2008 > June > 26 > Enforcing Jessica’s Law

Enforcing Jessica’s Law

Strict sentencing rules in child sex cases increasingly are coming into play locally

By Cindy Powers / The Bulletin
June 26, 2008

A Bend man who sexually abused his young daughter for four years has been sentenced to 25 years in prison under an Oregon law that crime victim advocates say is for “the worst of the worst.”

Earlier this month, the 33-year-old man pleaded guilty to raping and sodomizing the....

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