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OH SB64
Bill
Status
7/11/2013
Primary Sponsor
Connie Pillich
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AI Summary
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Amends Ohio Revised Code section 2905.05 to add a new offense prohibiting any person from soliciting, coaxing, enticing, or luring children under fourteen years of age to accompany them for any unlawful purpose without parental consent or employment-based exemption.
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Expands criminal child enticement charges to cover unlawful purposes beyond sexual motivation, including situations where a person engages in enticement for other illegal objectives.
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Maintains existing affirmative defenses allowing the activity if undertaken in response to a bona fide emergency or reasonable belief necessary to preserve a child's health, safety, or welfare.
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Establishes criminal child enticement as a first-degree misdemeanor, or a fifth-degree felony if the offender has a prior conviction for specified sex offenses, child endangerment, or kidnapping crimes against a minor.
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Declares the act an emergency measure effective immediately to protect vulnerable minors from criminal child enticement.
Legislative Description
To prohibit under the offense of criminal child enticement an offender, for an unlawful purpose and without privilege, consent, or a public safety or education-related employment, from soliciting, coaxing, enticing, or luring the child to accompany the offender and to declare an emergency.
Criminal child enticement-modify
Last Action
Effective Date
7/11/2013