{"id":661905,"date":"2025-05-04T08:08:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T15:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?p=661905"},"modified":"2025-05-04T08:08:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T15:08:32","slug":"calif-democrats-strip-automatic-felony-for-buying-sex-from-16-and-17-year-olds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/video\/oan-contribution\/calif-democrats-strip-automatic-felony-for-buying-sex-from-16-and-17-year-olds\/","title":{"rendered":"Calif. Democrats Strip Automatic Felony For Buying Sex From 16 and 17-Year-Olds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>OAN\u2019s\u00a0<a href=index-1213.html>Alicia Summers<\/a><br>8:07 PM \u2013 Sunday, May 4, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>California Democrats just removed a key provision from a bill this week that would have made it an automatic felony to buy sex from a 16- or 17-year-old child. Let that sink in: pay for sex with a 15-year-old\u2014felony. Do the same with a 16- or 17-year-old\u2014usually just a misdemeanor in California. AB-379 would have made sure this crime is treated as a felony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some Democrats argue it could disproportionately harm certain marginalized groups\u2014LGBTQ and minority youth. But Democrat Assemblyman Nick Scholtz claims it\u2019s already a felony. Meanwhile, Senator Wiener tries to downplay the issue, comparing it to a misguided love story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this point, what can Republicans in California do to make it a felony to buy sex from 16- and 17-year-olds? Could this issue help flip seats? Let\u2019s talk about it. Elizabeth Barcohana, CAGOP Delegate joins Alicia Summers to talk about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video autoplay controls muted poster=index-1210.html src=index-1214.html><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Democrats just removed a key provision from a bill this week that would have made it an automatic felony to buy sex from a 16- or 17-year-old child<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":661908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[306,144,70507,5856,3659],"class_list":["post-661905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oan-contribution","tag-alicia-summers","tag-democrats","tag-elizabeth-barcohana","tag-interview","tag-minor"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2186650142-e1746371127989.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Sophia Flores","author_link":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/author\/sophia-flores\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661914,"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661905\/revisions\/661914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}