BuzzFeed - State lawmakers nixed a proposed statute? that would? criminalize parents who don't protect their children from abusers?.? ?Similar laws ?in other states? ?have lead to the imprisonment of battered women?.? Vermont's Statehouse. Wangkun Jia/Wangkun Jia Vermont legislators last week killed a measure that would have targeted parents who fail to protect their children from abusers. Similar laws in other states have led to lengthy prison sentences for women who were battered by the same men who abused their children. Senate Bill 9, a child abuse prevention bill, easily passed the state senate with a provision to create the crime of "failure to protect," punishable by up to 10 years in prison. But the house stripped that provision from the bill after a debate in which at least one elected official and a domestic violence advocate pointed to a BuzzFeed News investigation, published last year, that found 28 mothers in 11 states who were sentenced to 10 years or
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