Dan Donovan: “I thank the chairman for yielding to me. Before I came to Congress, I was an elected district attorney for 12 years in…”

“I thank the chairman for yielding to me. Before I came to Congress, I was an elected district attorney for 12 years in Staten Island, New York. Prior to that, I spent 8 years in the Manhattan DA's office as a prosecutor. Very few things disturb me after all of those 20 years of prosecuting cases, but then it came to my attention about sex dolls being shipped from foreign lands to the United States for only one purpose: to be used as sex objects that simulate a young child. As the chairman spoke earlier, these dolls can be formed. They can be created. They can be designed to appear in any shape or form that the abuser wants them to be. They have realistic eyelashes, realistic hair, warming devices, and cleaning apparatuses. They are totally, as my good friend from Texas said, disgusting. {time} 1430 They appear to be lifelike replicas of young children. A fully customized doll can cost up to $10,000. But the dolls that the chairman was referring to on Amazon were as low as $409 with free shipping. That is less than the cost of an iPhone. The good news is, as the chairman brought out, Amazon no longer sells these products. The bad news is the dolls are still available for sale on other websites. The dolls when they are shipped are purposely labeled as mannequins to disguise what their true purpose is. Science has shown that dolls normalize pedophilic behavior rather than discourage pedophiles from acting out on their urges or aggression.…”