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ABUSERS SERVE MORE TIME IN PRISON. >> EVERY MOM WHO HAS A GIRL DREAMSF OWEDDINGS, AND GRANDKIDS AND PAGEANTS AND THEES THINGS YOU ALL WANT FOR YOUR KIDS, AND HE TOOK THAT FROM ME. REPORTER: AT JUST 9 MONTHS OLD, KYLIE MCCARTHY’S LITTLE GIRL WAS ATTACKED BY HER THEN BOYFRIEND, PAUL ROQUE, SHE WAS GIVEN JUST A 10% CHANCE OSUF RVIVAL. HE SERVED LESS THAN 5 YEARS IN PRISON. >> FOUR YEARS AND 8 NTMO FOR VIOLENTLY SHANGKI AND THROWING MY DAUGHTER AND GIVING HER LIFELONG LIFE ALTERING CONDITIO.NS REPORTER: MCCARTHY IS NOW PUSHING FOR LONGER SENTENCESOR VIOLENT CHILD ABUSERS. A BILL TO HELP DO JUST THAT SWA NAMED FOR HER DAUGHTER, KAMILLA OR KAMMIE, IT WAS WRITTEN BY 12-YEAR-OLD KENTUCKY YTHOU ADVOCATE KIERA DUNK OF OLDHAM CO UNTY. >> IN KAMMIE’S CASE HER ABUSER PLED DOWN TO A FELONY THATS I TYPICALLY USED FOR THEFT A IND DIDN’T WANT CHILD ABUSE LISTED UNRDE BASICALLY THE SAME THING AS A THE. FT REPORTER: WITH THE HELOFP KENTUCKY SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE DAVID OSBOURNE, DUNK CRAFT AED BILL TO CHANGE SENTENCING GUIDELINES FOR VIOLENT CHILD ABUSS.ER SHE GOT THE IDEA WHILE WORNGKI WITH HER MOM ON ANOTHER BILL SHE WROTE THAT LICENSED MIDWIVES IN THE STATE. >> I REMEMBER THE CAR RIDE HEOM AFTER OUR BILL HAD PASSED SHE GOT TEARY-EYED AND SAID, MOM, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO NOW SO I SAID HONEY FIND SOMETHING UYO ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT. REPORTER: KAMMIE’S BILL IS SET TO BE INTRODUCED IN THE LEGISLATURE AT A TIME WHEN KENTUCKY LEADS THE NATION IN CHILD ABUSE CASES. A REALITY MCARTHY LIVES WITH EVERYDAY, SHE HOPES KAMMIE’S LAW WILL SAVE ANOTHER MOTHER FMRO HAVING TO ENDURE THIS TYPE OF PAIN. >> WE HAD GTOO TO EVERY PAROLE HEARING, WE HAD TO GO AND SAY THIS IS NOT RIGHT. NOT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM, NOT THE POLICE. WE SAID HERE AFTERWARDS AND SAID WHAT DO WE DO NOW? IT IS SO SAD TTHA PRISONERS, THEY HAVE MORE RIGHTS THAN THE VICTIMS DO. REPORTER: THE PROCTJE STARTED AT EAST OLDHAM MIDDLE SCHOOL WHERE ADVOCATES MEET AND SHE IS HOPING LATER THIS YEAR LEGISLATORS WILL PICK

12-year-old Kentucky girl crafts bill aimed at changing way violent child abusers are sentenced

A Kentucky mother is fighting to change the law so child abusers serve more time behind bars.And now, she’s getting help from a 12-year-old girl who wrote the bill to bring about change. The bill is known as Kammie’s Law.”Every mom who has a girl dreams of weddings, and grandkids, pageants, and these things you all want for your kids, and he took that from me,” said Kylie McCarty, Kamille’s mom, as she laments about the activities she will never enjoy with her now 6-year-old daughter.At just 9 months old, Kylie McCarthy’s little girl was attacked by her then-boyfriend, Paul Raque. She was given just a 10% chance of survival.Raque served less than five years in prison.”Four years and eight months. Shaking and throwing my daughter, and giving her life-long, life-altering conditions,” she said.McCarthy is now pushing for longer sentences for violent child abusers. A bill to help do just that was named for her daughter, Kamille, or Kammie.It was written by 12-year-old Kiera Dunk of Oldham County, a member of the Kentucky Youth Advocates.”In Kammie’s case, her abuser pled down to a felony that is typically used for theft, and I didn’t want child abuse listed under the same thing as a theft,” Dunk said.With the help of Kentucky Speaker of the House David Osbourne, Dunk crafted a bill to change sentencing guidelines for violent child abusers. She got the idea while working with her mom on another bill she wrote that licensed midwives in the state.”I remember the car ride home after our bill had passed, she said, ‘Mom, what are we going to do now?’ So I said, ‘Honey, find something you are passionate about,” said Kiera’s mom, Brandi Dunk.Kammie’s Law is set to be introduced in the legislature at a time when Kentucky leads the nation in child abuse cases. It’s a reality McCarthy lives with every day. She hopes Kammie’s Law will save another mother from having to endure this type of pain.”We had to go to every parole hearing, we had to go and say, ‘This is not right. Not the justice system, not the police. We sat here afterward and said, ‘What do we do now?’ It’s so sad that prisoners, they have more rights than their victims do,” McCarthy said as she fought back tears.Kiera’s project started at East Oldham Middle School, where the Kentucky Youth Advocates meet, and she is hoping later this year legislators will pick up that bill and make it law.

OLDHAM COUNTY, Ky. —

A Kentucky mother is fighting to change the law so child abusers serve more time behind bars.

And now, she’s getting help from a 12-year-old girl who wrote the bill to bring about change. The bill is known as Kammie’s Law.

“Every mom who has a girl dreams of weddings, and grandkids, pageants, and these things you all want for your kids, and he took that from me,” said Kylie McCarty, Kamille’s mom, as she laments about the activities she will never enjoy with her now 6-year-old daughter.

At just 9 months old, Kylie McCarthy’s little girl was attacked by her then-boyfriend, Paul Raque. She was given just a 10% chance of survival.

Raque served less than five years in prison.

“Four years and eight months. Shaking and throwing my daughter, and giving her life-long, life-altering conditions,” she said.

McCarthy is now pushing for longer sentences for violent child abusers. A bill to help do just that was named for her daughter, Kamille, or Kammie.

It was written by 12-year-old Kiera Dunk of Oldham County, a member of the Kentucky Youth Advocates.

“In Kammie’s case, her abuser pled down to a felony that is typically used for theft, and I didn’t want child abuse listed under the same thing as a theft,” Dunk said.

With the help of Kentucky Speaker of the House David Osbourne, Dunk crafted a bill to change sentencing guidelines for violent child abusers. She got the idea while working with her mom on another bill she wrote that licensed midwives in the state.

“I remember the car ride home after our bill had passed, she said, ‘Mom, what are we going to do now?’ So I said, ‘Honey, find something you are passionate about,” said Kiera’s mom, Brandi Dunk.

Kammie’s Law is set to be introduced in the legislature at a time when Kentucky leads the nation in child abuse cases. It’s a reality McCarthy lives with every day. She hopes Kammie’s Law will save another mother from having to endure this type of pain.

“We had to go to every parole hearing, we had to go and say, ‘This is not right. Not the justice system, not the police. We sat here afterward and said, ‘What do we do now?’ It’s so sad that prisoners, they have more rights than their victims do,” McCarthy said as she fought back tears.

Kiera’s project started at East Oldham Middle School, where the Kentucky Youth Advocates meet, and she is hoping later this year legislators will pick up that bill and make it law.