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Simotas’ Bill on Rape Passes

simotaAccording to NY daily news, the promotion of the bill, Rape is Rape, was finally successful since it was passed by the NY State Assembly in Albany, after Greek-American State MP, Aravella Simota’s efforts.

Concerning  the case of a Bronx teacher who was brutally raped by a city cop, the Assembly passed a bill on June 12 to make the rape law more stringent.

Until now the state law considered anal and oral contact as a criminal sexual conduct, not rape.

Assembly bill sponsor, Aravella Simotas, said: “This case is one where an ordinary citizen came to the Capitol and caused a major bill to come to the floor of the Assembly, which is no easy hurdle.”

Simotas is an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party, who currently represents parts of western Queens, including Astoria and parts of Long Island City in the New York State Assembly. She is the first woman elected to office from her district, and one of the first Greek-American women elected to office in New York.

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