OKLAHOMA SENATE TELLS LORENE BIBLE THEY DON’T HAVE TIME TO HEAR LAURIA AND ASHLEY’S LAW
Ch. 6 - April 25, 2024 6:47 am
TULSA, Okla. –
The bill is named for two 16-year-old girls who went missing in 1999 and have never been found.
The proposed law would require anyone convicted of accessory to murder to serve 85 percent of their sentence.
Lorene Bible says if this bill isn’t heard on Thursday, April 25, she’ll have to wait until next year to try again.
She says she’s already waited too long for justice and says this proposed law is too important to put on hold.
She says this law is needed because the only person convicted in the disappearance of Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman, got a 10-year prison sentence but only served two years and four months of it.
Ronnie Busick pleaded guilty to accessory to murder. Investigators believe the others involved in murdering the girls are now dead.
Bible says not passing this law would be like a punch to the gut.
“When you are fighting, and you’ve fought for 24 years to be heard, for the voices of the girls to be heard, that they matter, you know that they said we don’t have time how do you not have time because this could actually be your family member,” said Lorene Bible.
The House passed the bill and the Senate Judiciary Committee also passed it, but, Lorene says the Senate says it doesn’t have time to hear it.
She’s asking people to contact the office of Senate Majority Floor Leader Greg McCourtney at 405-521-5541.
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