Iowa Code Overhauls Sexual Abuse Law in 1977 Reform
Des Moines reports sweeping changes to Iowa criminal law on sexual conduct. Sex abuse now ranks in three degrees with severe penalties, while rape terminology and sodomy offenses are removed. Spousal charges face limits and the age of consent shifts to 14 for non incest cases.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Blair Wood
Black Hawk County
Wood
John P. Roehrick
Roehrick
Gene Glenn
D-Ottumwa
Sharon Thompson
Thompson
Robert Haug
Producers buy Joplin script
David Permut and Mark Travis acquired film rights to Buried Alive, Myra Friedman's biography of Janis Joplin, the late rock singer, in a Los Angeles deal.
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Los Angeles
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Linda Svoboda
D-Amana
John Quinn
Iowa Law Enforcement Academy
Sen
Eugene Hill
D-Newton
Joplin
Fi Smulekoffs
Herculon