AUGUSTA ( AP) — A legislative committee is holding hearings on a pair of bills requiring notification of authorities when a child is missing.
Both bills before the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee today are modeled after “Caylee’s Law,” which is being considered in Florida.
That legislation was inspired by the case of 2-yearold Caylee Anthony, whose mother didn’t report her missing in Florida for about a month. The mother has been acquitted of murder.
In Maine, Phippsburg Republican Rep. Kimberly Olson’s bill makes failing to report a missing child within 24 hours a crime.
Augusta Democratic Rep. Anna Blodgett’s bill makes it a crime to fail to report a missing child under 13 or to fail to cooperate in the investigation of the death of a child.
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