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Gulf Coast Kid s House and The NISSI Project are banding with other child advocacy agencies to strengthen the response to human trafficking of children. ....
AP Photo/Phil Sears Matt Gaetz helped enact Florida legislation to toughen penalties for sex offenses against children. He said in 2014 that sex offenders who prey on children were simply wired differently. Gaetz is now the subject of a sex-trafficking investigation reportedly involving a 17-year-old. In 2014, long before he became the subject of a federal sex-trafficking investigation, Matt Gaetz pushed Florida to enact what he called a scorched-earth policy toward sexual predators. Gaetz, then 31 years old, served as the chairman of the Florida House of Representatives Criminal Justice Subcommittee. He cosponsored legislation that increased the mandatory prison time for convicted sexual offenders, calling it some of the most important work his subcommittee would do. ....