United States Federal Statutes provided by your criminal lawyer

Learn the law. Here is the sexual abuse and sex crime law from the United States Federal Code.

Note: These excerpts are for informational purposes only. Please consult your child molestation attorney for legal advice if you are in need of only the best child abuse defense .

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(2) Whoever violates, or attempts or conspires to violate, paragraph

(4) of subsection (a) shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both, but if such person has a prior conviction under this chapter, chapter 109A, or chapter 117, or under the laws of any State relating to aggravated sexual abuse, sexual abuse, or abusive sexual conduct involving a minor or ward, or the production, possession, receipt, mailing, sale, distribution, shipment, or transportation of child pornography, such person shall be fined under this title and imprisoned for not less than 2 years nor more than 10 years. (c) Affirmative Defense.--It shall be an affirmative defense to a charge of violating paragraph (4) of subsection (a) that the defendant--

(1) possessed less than three matters containing any visual depiction proscribed by that paragraph; and

(2) promptly and in good faith, and without retaining or allowing any person, other than a law enforcement agency, to access any visual depiction or copy thereof--

(A) took reasonable steps to destroy each such visual depiction; or

(B) reported the matter to a law enforcement agency and afforded that agency access to each such visual depiction.

(Added Pub. L. 95-225, Sec. 2(a), Feb. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 7; amended Pub. L. 98-292, Sec. 4, May 21, 1984, 98 Stat. 204; Pub. L. 99-500, Sec. 101(b) [title VII, Sec. 704(b)], Oct. 18, 1986, 100 Stat. 1783-39, 1783-75, and Pub. L. 99-591, Sec. 101(b) [title VII, Sec. 704(b)], Oct. 30, 1986, 100 Stat. 3341-39, 3341-75; Pub. L. 100-690, title VII, Sec. 7511(b), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4485; Pub. L. 101-647, title III, Sec. 323(a), (b), Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4818, 4819; Pub. L. 103-322, title XVI, Sec. 160001(d), (e), title XXXIII, Sec. 330010(8), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2037, 2143; Pub. L. 104-208, div. A, title I, Sec. 101(a) [title I, Sec. 121[5]], Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009, 3009-26, 3009-30; Pub. L. 105-314, title II, Secs. 202(a), 203(a), Oct. 30, 1998, 112 Stat. 2977, 2978.)

Codification
Pub. L. 99-591 is a corrected version of Pub. L. 99-500.