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Sexual assault statutes update in bill state Rep. Hovey supports

Lawmakers have sent the governor a bill to close a loophole in Connecticut’s sexual assault statutes.  The bill makes it easier to prosecute offenders who sexually assault people with severe physical and developmental disabilities.  Monroe Representative DebraLee Hovey says the definition of physically helpless is expanded.

 

Hovey says it can be a temporary incapacitation so cases involving the date rape drug would be included.  She says the bill makes it very clear that if people are incapacitated in some way, then it is sexual assault.

 

The legislation was drafted in response to the Connecticut Supreme Court’s 2012 acquittal of a Bridgeport man convicted of attempted sexual assault of a woman who has severe cerebral palsy and cannot communicate verbally.

 

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