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Internet Sex Crimes in California Includes Obscene Electronic Communication With Minor

By Walin & Klarich

Be careful who you chat with on the Internet With the advent of the computer world, there is more and more legislation regarding proper and improper use of the internet. Recent California laws make it a crime to e-mail or electronically communicate with a child under 18. (288.2, 288.3, and 288.4 of the California Penal Code.) In certain situations, even mistake of age could still get you in trouble with the law if you discuss sexual related matters on line to a minor. Even if the person you are talking with electronically is a cop and represents him or herself as a minor, it is illegal to communicate anything of a sexual nature. Police throughout California have received grants from the federal government to conduct these sting operations where police pose as minors and enter chat rooms with the intent to getting an unsuspecting adult to begin to ?chat? about sexual matters, catching them in the act of an Internet sex crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern California Criminal Defense Blog on January 16, 2009 (boomark / email).