‘I’m done with us protecting people who would buy and abuse our children,’ says Sen. Susan Eggman (District 5).
A Democrat state senator in California called out members of her party for supposedly protecting pedophiles in order to keep black and brown men from filling prisons.
Speaking in favor of SB 1414 on Wednesday, seeking to make purchasing a child for sex a felony, Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman (District 5, Stockton) blasted Democrats for, in her words, “protecting people who would buy and abuse our children.”
BREAKING: A Democrat in the California State Senate just STUNNED the entire floor with her fiery speech against her own party
“I’m done. I’m done with us protecting people who would buy and abuse our children.”
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“I’d like to say as a progressive proud member of this body for the last 12 years, I’m done,” Eggman said. “I’m done with us protecting people who would buy and abuse our children. I’m done.”
She continued: “I don’t want to send more black and brown men to prison. I don’t want more people in prison, but I don’t want people buying girls. I don’t want people buying little girls anymore. And I’m tired of saying it’s okay and that we have to protect the men who do it.”
Highlighting the documentary Escaping the Blade, exposing the underage sex trade in Sacramento, Eggman went on to explain the Democrat bail reform policies have essentially resulted in a catch-and-release system allowing pedophiles to re-enter society immediately following arrest.
“Men are being given a little slap in the hand or a couple of days and then they’re back out again and they do the same thing. They get caught over and over and over again and somehow that’s okay. It’s not okay. It is not okay anymore. And no more am I watching.”
The senator added that despite soon departing the legislature, due to term limits, she hoped her colleagues would continue the work to protect the children, stating, “They’re poor kids, they’re kids of color, but they shouldn’t have to live a life determined by what happens to them by others at a very young age and have the Democratic Party of California say, it’s OK.”
“It’s not okay. And I’m not doing it anymore. And I hope none of you do too. We have to be able to draw a line. And for me, I’m drawing a line. I urge your aye vote.”
Following the senator’s speech and the testimony of others, SB 1414 passed with a 36-0 vote.
The Daily Mail reports, “The bill will now go to the state assembly, where Grove and most others on both parties hope it will be beefed back up to its original form.”