ALBANY – Gov. Pataki yesterday took to the skies yesterday to push for tougher laws against sexual predators.
Pataki flew to Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, holding airport press conferences urging the Assembly to act on a five-point plan he is pushing.
“When those who stalk and rape a child can be out on the streets in two or three years, when 5,000 sexually violent predators are currently awaiting release from our state prisons, we owe it to the families across New York to waste no more time and to enact these measures now,” Pataki said.
He is calling for civil confinement of dangerous sex predators whose prison terms expire and tougher penalties for those who abuse children.
He also wants the elimination of the statute of limitations in cases of rape and lifetime registration of all sex offenders on a state registry.
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