Despite California’s enormous budget problems, the parents of a slain 17-year-old girl say that money has to be found to fund a proposed law that might have saved their daughter’s life.
Nathan Fletcher, the state assemblyman who was to introduce “Chelsea’s Law” — named for Chelsea King, who disappeared on Feb. 25 while jogging in a park after school — agreed that the legislation is so important that a way must be found to pay for it. “I think that we can find enough money to protect our children from sexually violent predators,” Fletcher told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira Tuesday via satellite from Sacramento.
With Fletcher were Brent and Kelly King, the parents of Chelsea, a San Diego-area girl and dedicated runner whose body was found in a shallow grave in the park five days after she disappeared.
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