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By Allison Frankel, Criminal Law Project, ACLU & Sarah Solon, Communications Strategist, ACLU

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Prosecution Is Not the Way to Save a 10-Year-Old Child

When children under 12 engage in exploitative sexual behavior, it is often a result of abuse or exposure to sex acts that they themselves have experienced. These children need mental health treatment and family interventions, not probation and blacklists.