--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> >When it comes to 40 years olds shtupping teenage
> daughters, us Dads
> >are fairly murderous. I mean humorless. That was a
> Freudian slip. jks
>
> It may be unethical or evidence of psychopathology
> or generally
> ill-advised. But illegal? C'mon.
>
> Doug
See 18 USC § 2422 (Coercion and enticement)
(a) Whoever knowingly persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any individual to travel in interstate or foreign commerce, or in any Territory or Possession of the United States, to engage in prostitution, or in any sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
(b) Whoever, using the mail or any facility or means of interstate or foreign commerce, or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States knowingly persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any individual who has not attained the age of 18 years, to engage in prostitution or any
sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 15 years, or both.
See also UNITED STATES v. JOHNSON, 221 F.3d 83, 86 (2d Cir. 2000) (appeal of sentence involving a guilty plea of individual who had sex with (among others) a sixteen year old girl he met on the internet).
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