What's happening
This bill creates new crimes for using electronic communication to sexually lure minors, with escalating penalties for repeat offenders.
Why it matters
Targets online sexual exploitation of minors by specifically criminalizing sexual communications sent to minors for the sender’s own sexual gratification. , making it easier to prosecute grooming behaviors that might not involve physical contact.
Establishes clear age-related exemptions. (e.g., communications between minors, or between individuals close in age), potentially ensuring that consensual relationships among peers are not swept up in the new offenses.
Creates a tiered penalty system, with repeat offenders facing felony charges. , indicating a legislative intent to deter habitual predatory behavior and impose harsher consequences for those who reoffend.
Updates New York law to address modern communication technologies. , reflecting the growing recognition of how digital platforms can facilitate child exploitation and the need for statutes that keep pace with current risks.
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Ban Online Luring of Minors
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Ban Online Luring of Minors
In Senate Committee · Codes · Sponsor Rich Funke
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6297
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 2, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, GRAF -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of allurement of a minor through electronic means
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding two new sections 263.17 and 263.18 to read as follows: § 263.17 Allurement of a minor through electronic means in the second
degree.
Any individual who knowingly engages in sexual communication for the purpose, in whole or substantial part, of his or her own sexual gratification, including text messages or pictures, with an individual whom he or she knows to be a minor, through any electronic means shall be guilty of the crime of allurement of a minor through electronic means. The crime of allurement of a minor through electronic means shall not apply to communications sent from one minor to another, to communications sent by a person age twenty-one or under to a person age seventeen or older, nor to communications from a person age eighteen to a person age fifteen or over.
Allurement of a minor through electronic means in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor. § 263.18 Allurement of a minor through electronic means in the first
degree.
A person is guilty of allurement of a minor through electronic means in the first degree when he or she commits the crime of allurement of a minor through electronic means in the second degree, and has previously been convicted of such crime within the preceding ten years.
Allurement of a minor through electronic means in the first degree is a class E felony.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03583-01-7
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