Arngrim takes aim at Hawaii's incest exception

Sunday, 06 April 2008 19:00

PROTECT national board member Alison Arngrim makes waves pretty much everywhere she goes, so where better than on the beaches of Hawaii?

Arngrim, who millions know as "Nellie Oleson" from Little House on the Prairie, is speaking there at the annual conference of the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma about her work with PROTECT changing and reforming child protection laws. And one of the most outrageous laws on the books is Hawaii's incest loophole, which gives a virtual free pass to criminals who rape their own children. It looks as though Ms. Arngrim has found leaders in the legal and political community who agree this law must change. To read about Hawaii's official policy of preferential treatment for people who prey on children in their own families -- and similar laws around the U.S.

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