LC 232 Legislature · 2025 Regular Session

Generally revise laws related to crimes against children

This bill creates a new criminal offense called grooming of a child for a sexual offense, which targets adults who use communication methods to build relationships with minors for the purpose of sexual exploitation. The law specifically addresses behaviors such as manipulating children into sexual conduct, enticing them to meet for sexual purposes, distributing sexually explicit material, or exploiting positions of authority to develop intimate relationships with minors. Penalties vary based on the victim's age, with the harshest punishments - including mandatory 100-year sentences without parole eligibility for victims aged 12 and younger - reserved for cases involving the youngest children. The legislation also updates existing child abuse laws to include computer-generated child pornography as a form of sexual abuse and expands the definition of sexual offenses to cover law enforcement officers whom offenders mistakenly believed to be children.
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Oct 2024
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Introduced Oct 16, 2024 Last action Dec 10, 2024
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