Source: floridapolitics.com 3/2/26
The legislation comes as Attorney General James Uthmeier has stepped up action against child sexual predators.
A bill designed to increase prison sentences for child sex offenders is now heading to the Senate floor.
The Senate Fiscal Policy Committee has advanced the measure, completing the Committee review process in the upper chamber.
“This bill increases penalties and creates mandatory prison sentences for the most serious sex crimes, especially those involving children,” said Sen. Jonathan Martin, a Fort Myers Republican who sponsored the bill (SB 1750).
“This deals with child pornography offenses and classifies them to high felony levels ensuring offenders face real prison time instead of probation.”
Repeat offenders would see minimum sentences increase from 10 years in prison to 15. Sentences for sexual performance with a child would jump from 20 years in prison to 30. And those convicted of buying or selling children would see minimum sentences increased from 20 years to 30.
The measure also covers offenders who possess pornographic images of children under…
Meanwhile no one on Epstein Island has been convicted.
Obviously there’s no discussion of costs–the $30k per year it costs to incarcerate someone in Florida (so that’s an extra $300,000 per inmate, minimum, convicted under these new guidelines), and the lost revenue of formerly tax-paying citizens (and labor-providing citizens) for ten years, not to mention the costs of families who may need to rely on the welfare state without their main provider. I should put together an estimate for the toll of the modern sex panic on the economy–from incarceration, to payouts from the government to alleged victims, to the staggering number of investigations, to rising insurance costs.