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Sting Operations Common in Internet Luring Cases

Internet Luring of a Child in Larimer County
Sting Operations Common in Internet Luring Cases

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Internet Luring of a Child is often charged as a result of law enforcement sting operations. Read more about this crime here.

Internet Luring of a Child is charged in Fort Collins and Larimer County when a person is accused of using the internet to sexually communicate with someone under the age of 15 and through the communications, invites the underaged person to meet. Internet Luring of a Child is being charged more and more through internet sting operations run by law enforcement. A Colorado man recently got caught up in one of these sting operations. According to the report, law enforcement had created a fake profile presenting themselves as a 14-year-old girl. They posted ads and when someone would respond, they would continue the conversation until a time to meet was set. Then, at the place of the meeting, law enforcement swoops in and makes the arrest.

Fort Collins Internet Luring of a Child Attorney: Definition of Internet Luring of a Child in Colorado

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.

Again, all the following must be met to charge this crime:

  1. Communication must happen over the internet, data network, or text;
  2. Messages occur with a person who is (or is believed to be) under the age of 15;
  3. The messages are sexual in nature; and
  4. The person invites or persuades the underaged person to meet.

The meeting does not have to occur to charge this crime. Simply making the invitation is enough to meet the criteria.

Sentence for Sting Operations 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 purpose of the meeting is for sexual contact. If there is a sexual purpose to the meeting, then the charge would be a class 4 felony.

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 initial consultation. Together, we can protect your future.

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