Bill Text: NY S08112 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the offense of directing sexual conduct between children; provides that a person is guilty of directing sexual conduct by or between children when such person, being eighteen years or older, for the purpose of degrading or abusing such child or children, or for the purpose of gratifying the actor's sexual desire or for monetary gain, directs a child or two or more children, less than thirteen years old, to perform an act or acts of sexual conduct upon themselves or each other.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-29 - REFERRED TO CODES [S08112 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08112-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                    IN SENATE
                                     March 29, 2018
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        Introduced  by Sen. LANZA -- (at request of the Office of Court Adminis-
          tration) -- read twice and ordered printed, and  when  printed  to  be
          committed to the Committee on Codes
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the penal law, in relation to sex offenses against a
          child or children
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 130.81 to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 130.81 Directing sexual conduct by or between children.
     4    A person is guilty of directing sexual conduct by or between  children
     5  when  such  person, being eighteen years old or more, for the purpose of
     6  degrading or abusing such child or children, or for the purpose of grat-
     7  ifying the actor's sexual desire or for monetary gain, directs  a  child
     8  or two or more children, less than thirteen years old, to perform an act
     9  or acts of sexual conduct upon themselves or each other.
    10    A  person directs a child or two or more children to perform an act or
    11  acts of sexual conduct upon themselves or each other  when  the  person,
    12  acting with the intent that the child or children perform such an act or
    13  acts, solicits, requests, commands, importunes or uses physical force or
    14  threats of physical force to convince or compel the child or children to
    15  perform such act or acts.
    16    Directing  sexual conduct by or between children shall be deemed to be
    17  the highest offense level it would  be  had  the  actor,  regardless  of
    18  intent, personally engaged in the act or acts with the child or children
    19  that he or she directed the child or children to perform upon themselves
    20  or each other.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    22  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14503-01-8