BOMBSHELL REPORT: Ciattarelli “three times voted against bills that would have kept sex offenders and other abusers away from children”

BOMBSHELL REPORT: Ciattarelli “three times voted against bills that would have kept sex offenders and other abusers away from children”

Alarming new reporting from the New Jersey Independent reveals Jack Ciattarelli’s extreme record of putting New Jersey children at risk, including repeatedly voting against legislation that “would have kept sex offenders and other abusers away from children.” He even voted against a bill that would have “terminated parental rights for individuals convicted of sexual assault that resulted in the birth of a child.

This isn’t the first time Ciattarelli’s record has been dangerously out of touch with New Jersey family values. Ciattarelli supports an abortion ban, campaigned with the head of an extreme, far-right anti-abortion group, and has pushed to fund shady organizations that spread disinformation and prevent women from getting the care they need.

Ciattarelli’s agenda gets more dangerous for New Jersey at every turn. Read more from the New Jersey Independent: 

• Ciattarelli served in the Assembly from 2011 to 2018. During that time, he three times voted against bills that would have kept sex offenders and other abusers away from children, and also against a bill that would have helped address college sexual assaults.

• In 2013, he voted no on Assembly Bill 3219, which would have permitted domestic violence witnesses under the age of 16, and victims of any age, to testify in court by closed-circuit television rather than in person.

• The same year, he also voted against Assembly Bill 3537, which would have terminated parental rights for individuals convicted of sexual assault that resulted in the birth of a child.

• The next year, in 2014, he voted against a bill that would have disqualified registered sex offenders from working at “teen night” events at New Jersey businesses.

• Also in 2014, he voted against a bill that would have allowed the New Jersey attorney general to fine higher education institutions that fail to appropriately respond to students’ allegations of sexual assault by other students.

• During his time in office, he never introduced or voted for a bill addressing sexual assault.

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