Petition · past parliament

Longer jail sentence for child abuse

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

After watching channel four under cover police..
They do not get long enough as they come out and repeat offend ..
Drug dealers got longer for abit of weed witch is used to help ill people ..
We need to make a change and everyone believes this to !
I think doing this the world will be a better place and a safer place to be able to let children be children it’s not fair on these poor family’s and children having to go through this

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign some of these petitions:

Impose mandatory 10-year custodial sentences for all child sexual abuse offences: Impose mandatory 10-year custodial sentences for all child sexual abuse offences

Mandatory life sentence for child sexual abuse: Mandatory life sentence for child sexual abuse

Increase minimum and maximum sentences for all crimes against children: Increase minimum and maximum sentences for all crimes against children

Timeline

10 Feb 2021 Petition opened for signatures
17 Feb 2021 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 17 Feb 2021

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.