SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1536

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE CLAYTON.

Read 1st time January 17, 2002, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To amend chapter 566, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to sexual offenses, with penalty provisions.



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Chapter 566, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 566.105, to read as follows:

566.105. 1. A person commits the crime of luring a child over the Internet if that person knowingly utilizes a computer on-line service, Internet service, or bulletin board service to seduce, solicit, lure or entice or to attempt to seduce, solicit, lure or entice a child, or another person whom he or she believes to be a child, to meet with any person for the purpose of any person engaging in sexual activity with that child or in the presence of that child.

2. As used in this section the following terms mean:

(1) "Child", any person under the age of seventeen years;

(2) "Sexual activity", acts of bestiality or masturbation or sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse as defined in section 566.010, or exposing the genitals of any person, or physical contact with a person's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or the breast of a female, done for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of any person.

3. Luring a child over the Internet is a class A felony if the child is thirteen years of age or younger. It is a class D felony if the child is fourteen years of age or older and all of the persons involved in luring the child are under nineteen years of age. It is a class C felony if the child is fourteen years of age or older and one or more of the persons involved in luring the child are at least nineteen years of age but less than twenty-one years of age. It is a class B felony if the child is fourteen years of age or older and one or more of the persons involved in luring the child are twenty-one years of age or older.


Missouri House of Representatives