Manny Rutinel “Helped Kill Bill Slapping Mandatory Prison Sentences on Convicted Pedophiles”
Democrat Manny Rutinel “helped kill legislation that would have imposed mandatory prison sentences on pedophiles convicted of crimes such as having sex with child prostitutes and pimping minors.”
Previously, The Gazette Editorial Board blasted Rutinel by name and accused the Democrats of rolling “out a welcome mat for perverts.”
“Manny Rutinel’s vote to protect child rapists is absolutely disgusting and disqualifying. Radical Rutinel should be ashamed of himself and every Colorado parent should be made aware of Manny Rutinel’s pro-child sex crime vote.” – NRCC Spokesman Zach Bannon
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‘A Welcome Mat for Perverts’: Colorado House Candidate Helped Kill Bill Slapping Mandatory Prison Sentences on Convicted Pedophiles
Washington Free Beacon
Ethan Barton
July 21, 2026
The Democratic nominee in Colorado’s competitive Eighth Congressional District, Manny Rutinel, helped kill legislation that would have imposed mandatory prison sentences on pedophiles convicted of crimes such as having sex with child prostitutes and pimping minors.
The 2024 bill would have slapped adults convicted of crimes involving child prostitutes with at least four years in prison for class-three felonies—like soliciting—and eight years for class-two felonies like coercing a minor into prostitution. But Rutinel joined his fellow Democrats on the house State, Civic, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee to kill it before it even made it to the full floor.
The Gazette Editorial Board blasted Rutinel by name and accused the Democrats of rolling “out a welcome mat for perverts.” The board said killing the bill would “bring in people who sell children for sex and those who patronize them.”
“Without this bill, adults who buy or rent child prostitutes face penalties that often result in little or no incarceration,” the board wrote in an editorial titled “House Democrats kill the bill against raping children.”
Just a month after the vote, in fact, a man from Commerce City, Colo.—where Rutinel lives—avoided any jail time after pleading guilty to soliciting for child prostitution and a cybercrime. Prosecutors said Daniel Goodfield negotiated to pay for sex with two girls—one was 14—in online chatrooms, not realizing they were actually undercover investigators. Police were waiting for him when he entered a hotel room to meet them.
Goodfield struck a deal with the district attorney that landed him probation and a six-year deferred sentence.
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The Gazette delivered a scathing rebuke of Rutinel and the Democrats who voted against the child prostitution bill.
“It seems inconceivable that elected officials would signal Colorado as a friendly state for adults to have sex with children – which is always rape – who are sold by foreign cartels and domestic sociopathic profiteers,” the editorial board wrote. The vote is “another sign how out of touch these progressive criminal justice reformers are with the electorate.”
The board also noted that more than 50 witnesses, including survivors who shared “heart-wrenching testimony about working as child sex slaves,” came to the committee hearing to support the bill. The district attorney of Colorado’s 18th Judicial District, John Kellner, said minors rescued from prostitution were, on average, 13 years old.
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