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SCS/SBs 36 & 112 - Currently, the penalty for forcible rape or sodomy of a child under the age of twelve is life imprisonment without eligibility for probation or parole until the person has served at least thirty years of such sentence. Under this act, the penalty for such crimes is life imprisonment without ever being eligible for probation, parole, or conditional release, if such forcible rape or sodomy of a child is outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman in that it involved torture or depravity of mind. This act prohibits any person convicted of a felony sexual offense under Chapter 566, RSMo, against a victim less than seventeen years of age, from being allowed to participate in the one hundred twenty day "shock incarceration program" in the Department of Corrections and being granted probation upon completion. Currently, only persons convicted of certain unclassified and Class A felony sexual offenses against children are prohibited from participating in the program and being granted probation upon completion. SUSAN HENDERSON MOORE
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