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Traveling to Meet with Underage Girls

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A man was charged with Internet Luring of a Child after he communicated online with two underage girls and traveled to meet up with them.

Internet Luring of a Child is charged in Fort Collins and Larimer County when a person communicates with someone 14 years old or younger electronically and suggests the two meet in person. An 18-year-old Colorado man was recently arrested for Internet Luring and Internet Sexual Exploitation of a Child after an investigation. According to the report, the man used social media to communicate with two underaged girls. Through the communication, he offered to pay them for naked pictures. He also discussed having a sexual relationship with them. It is alleged he traveled to Aurora with the intent of meeting up with them. It is not clear what point the officers got involved, but they arrested him at his home in the Yuma area.

Larimer County Internet Luring of a Child | Definition of Internet Luring

The Larimer County, Colorado law definition of Internet Luring of a Child – C.R.S. 18-3-306 – is:

An actor commits internet luring of a child if the actor knowingly communicates over a computer or computer network, telephone network, or data network or by a text message or instant message to a person who the actor knows or believes to be under fifteen years of age and, in that communication or in any subsequent communication by computer, computer network, telephone network, data network, text message, or instant message, describes explicit sexual conduct as defined in section 18-6-403 (2)(e), and, in connection with that description, makes a statement persuading or inviting the person to meet the actor for any purpose, and the actor is more than four years older than the person or than the age the actor believes the person to be.

Basically, here are the vital elements of this criminal charge:

  1. Communicating by electronic means (computer, phone, text, instant message, etc);
  2. With a person aged 14 or younger (or thought to be 14 or younger if it is a sting operation);
  3. When the actor is 4 or more years older than the person;
  4. And the communication is sexual in nature;
  5. And the actor suggests they meet up in person.

Sentence for Internet Luring of a Child in Loveland and Estes Park

In Fort Collins, Loveland, and Estes Park, Internet Luring of a Child is a class 5 felony, unless the intent of the meeting is to engage in sexual exploitation or sexual contact. Interestingly, the actual meeting doesn’t have to occur in order to get convicted of the crime. Simply suggesting a meeting is enough. Also, based on the fact that there must be sexual communication between the two, this crime is almost always charged as the class 4 felony sex offense.

If you or someone you love has been charged with Internet Luring of a Child, 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 your free consultation today. Together, we can protect your future.

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