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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Florida, is introducing a new set of bills that could have child sexual predators before the death penalty.
“If you rape somebody, if you’re bothering somebody, you’re basically murdering their soul. Those people never really fully recover. I’ve actually been on a committee with a very prominent (House Democrat) who actually spoke of the fact that she was molested as a child and so you can see that it affects and hurts people a lot,” Luna said.
Two of his three bills, all introduced in the 119th Congress on Tuesday, would require death sentences or at least life in prison for those accused of a wide range of crimes involving children.
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, Republican of Florida, is introducing a new set of bills on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images)
A third bill would require that convictions for adult rape and sexual abuse carry a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years to life in prison.
Luna told Fox News Digital that she raised the issue with the president-elect donald trump over the weekend, who suggested he was excited about the idea.
“I got the impression that he’s absolutely supportive of anything in this industry,” Luna said.
The Florida congresswoman was among members of the House Freedom Caucus who met with Trump over the weekend at Mar-a-Lago.
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Luna said President-elect Trump supports his bill. (Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images/File)
He said they also discussed whether Trump could sign an executive order imposing the death penalty for crimes related to pedophilia, but that would likely be impossible to achieve.
“I would be willing to sign an (executive order). But the fact is, it has to go through Congress first. So it would have to come to his desk that way,” he said.
moon first presented the accounts in the last Congress when Democrats controlled half of Congress as well as the White House. However, they didn’t gain much traction and ultimately never saw a vote in the full House.
Luna first introduced his bills in the 118th Congress, but they failed to gain traction. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images/File)
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He suggested that the aspect of the death penalty may have turned some people away from an issue that could otherwise garner broad bipartisan support, but argued that child predators “cannot be rehabilitated.”
“If you want to continue to move forward in a moral society, (then) you have to make sure that people like this, who are predators, are off the streets permanently,” Luna said.
