Legislators Kill Kyra Wine Bill

A Senate bill, which would have given judges the flexibility to impose a longer sentence for felony injury to a child, died in the Senate after returning from the House changed. The bill, proposed by Sen. Joyce Broadsword, was prompted by the severe abuse to local three-year-old Kyra Wine, who suffered the loss of both of her feet, a finger and a kidney, but whose abuser was sentenced to the maximum 10 years in prison. “I’m really disappointed,” Sen. Broadsword said. “I got it through the Senate with no problem, and then we ran into the brain trust over there (in the House)”/ Mary Truman , St. Maries Gazette-Record. More here . (Gazette Record File Photo/Ralph Bartholdt: Kyra Wine with her grandparents and sister Amanda, 6 )

Question: Can anyone explain how the Legislature has time to bash the federal government ad nauseum and pass worthless resolutions, but it doesn’t have time to pass a common-sense bill like this to protect Idaho’s children?