Topic:
Sex crimes and reporting
(McAsey, D-Lockport; Silverstein, D-Chicago) expands predatory criminal sexual assault of a child if that person commits “an act of contact, however slight between the sex organ or anus of one person and the part of the body of another, and the accused is 17 years of age or older and the victim is under 13 years of age. House Bill 804 also makes it a Class A misdemeanor for a person to personally observe sexual abuse of a child under the age of 13 and fail to report it to law enforcement or under the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Passed both chambers.