SC senator wants prison for child care providers who hurt children
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Posted: 11:01 AM Jan 6, 2009
Last Updated: 11:01 AM Jan 6, 2009
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January 5, 2009

GREENVILLE, S.C.---Greenville Republican Sen. Mike Fair is working on a bill that would require a mandatory prison sentence for child care providers who hurt children.

Causing serious injury to a child is a felony that carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, but there is currently no minimum sentence.

The senator was bothered by a case in which a home day care provider didn't get any prison time after pleading guilty to slapping a seven-month-old so hard the child suffered bleeding in the brain.

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