HB 1710 - DIGEST

     Provides that a person convicted of a crime against a child must be punished by confinement and fine to be no less than the following:  By confinement in a state correctional institution for a term of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

     For purposes of this act a "crime against a child" is designated as one of the following:  (1) Rape of a child in the first degree;

     (2) child molestation in the first degree; or

     (3) homicide by abuse, if the victim is under sixteen years of age.