Arrest Reports and Laws

Provisions applicable to online sexual corruption of a child.


(1) It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution for online sexual corruption of a child in the first or second degree that the person was not more than three years older than the person reasonably believed the child to be.
(2) It is not a defense to a prosecution for online sexual corruption of a child in the first or second degree that the person was in fact communicating with a law enforcement officer, as defined in ORS 163.730, or a person working under the direction of a law enforcement officer, who is 16 years of age or older.
(3) Online sexual corruption of a child in the first or second degree is committed in either the county in which the communication originated or the county in which the communication was received. [2007 c.876 §4]