Fort Collins Enticement of a Child Vs. Child Prostitution Attorney
What is the Difference?

Enticement of a Child and Soliciting for Child Prostitution are common charges stemming from online police stings. Read more about the similarities and differences with these crimes.

Enticement of a Child and Soliciting for Child Prostitution both involve arranging a meeting between an adult and a child for the purpose of sexual contact in Fort Collins and Larimer County. Often, when we hear about sting operations, people caught in these stings face Enticement of a Child, Soliciting for Prostitution or both, depending on the circumstances. Let’s take a look at these two crimes and how they are similar and different.

Larimer County Enticement of a Child Lawyer: What is Enticement in Colorado?

The Larimer County, Colorado, law definition of Enticement of a Child – C.R.S. 18-3-305 – is:

A person commits the crime of enticement of a child if he or she invites or persuades, or attempts to invite or persuade, a child under the age of fifteen years to enter any vehicle, building, room, or secluded place with the intent to commit sexual assault or unlawful sexual contact upon said child. It is not necessary to a prosecution for attempt under this subsection (1) that the child have perceived the defendant’s act of enticement.

For a sting operation, the officer will make sure the state their ‘age’ as 14 or younger. They will also try and get the person they are communicating with to admit the intent of the meeting to be for sexual contact of some sort. In these situations, it is always the child or officer pretending to be a child communicating with the adult. Enticement of a child is a class 4 felony, but can be a class 3 felony if the defendant has a previous conviction for enticement of a child or sexual assault on a child or for conspiracy to commit or the attempted commission of either offense, or if the enticement of a child results in bodily injury to that child.

Attorney for Soliciting for Child Prostitution in Loveland and Estes Park

In Fort Collins, Loveland, and Estes Park, Colorado, Soliciting for Child Prostitution – C.R.S. 18-7-402 – is defined as:

(1) A person commits soliciting for child prostitution if he:

(a) Solicits another for the purpose of prostitution of a child or by a child;

(b) Arranges or offers to arrange a meeting of persons for the purpose of prostitution of a child or by a child; or

(c) Directs another to a place knowing such direction is for the purpose of prostitution of a child or by a child.

Basically, the same actions that apply to the Enticement statute apply here under subsection (b), with the added exchange of money. Another addition is that under this statute, child is anyone under the age of 18, whereas in the other, the child must be less than 15 years old. Soliciting for child prostitution is a class 3 felony.


If you or someone you love has been charged with Enticement of a Child or Soliciting for Prostitution, be smart, exercise your right to remain silent and contact the best criminal defense attorneys from the O’Malley Law Office at 970-658-0007 to schedule a free initial consultation today. Together, we can protect your future.

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