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Sexual Offenses

Offenses involving sexual battery, lewd or lascivious conduct, sexual exploitation, and related crimes under Florida law.

Offenses

Computer Pornography and Child Exploitation

Florida Statute § 847.0135

Computer-facilitated child-sex offenses including prohibited solicitation, traveling, and transmissions.

VariesVaries

Exposing Children to an Adult Live Performance

Florida Statute § 827.11

Knowingly admitting a child to a qualifying adult live performance.

MisdemeanorFirst Degree

Exposing Minors to Harmful Presentations

Florida Statute § 847.013

Knowingly exposing minors to specified harmful motion pictures, exhibitions, shows, presentations, or representations.

MisdemeanorFirst Degree

Exposure of Sexual Organs

Florida Statute § 800.03

Exposing or exhibiting sexual organs, or being naked in public, in a vulgar or indecent manner.

VariesVaries

Female Genital Mutilation

Florida Statute § 794.08

Knowingly committing or attempting female genital mutilation on a person younger than 18, or committing related removal or consent conduct.

VariesVaries

Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material

Florida Statute § 827.072

Possessing, viewing, transmitting, or creating computer-generated material portraying a fictitious person who reasonably appears to be under 18 engaged in sexual conduct.

VariesVaries

Harmful Communication to a Minor

Florida Statute § 847.01385

An adult's harmful pattern of explicit and detailed sexual communication to a minor.

FelonyThird Degree

Harmful Materials to Minors

Florida Statute § 847.012

Selling, renting, loaning, using a minor to produce, or certain school-property distribution or posting of material harmful to minors.

FelonyThird Degree

Indecent Lewd or Lascivious Touching of Certain Minors

Florida Statute § 794.051

Lewd or lascivious touching by a person 24 or older involving a person 16 or 17 years of age.

FelonyThird Degree

Lewd or Lascivious Offenses

Florida Statute § 800.04

Lewd or lascivious battery, molestation, conduct, or exhibition committed upon or in the presence of a person under 16.

VariesVaries

Obscene Material to a Minor

Florida Statute § 847.0133

Knowingly selling, renting, loaning, giving away, distributing, transmitting, or showing obscene material to a minor.

FelonyThird Degree

Sexting

Florida Statute § 847.0141

A minor's knowing electronic transmission, distribution, or qualifying possession of a nude photograph or video that is harmful to minors.

VariesVaries

Sexual Battery

Florida Statute § 794.011

A sexual battery committed under the circumstances and classifications defined by Florida law.

VariesVaries

Sexual Performance by a Child; Child Sexual Abuse Material

Florida Statute § 827.071

Using a child in a sexual performance, promoting such a performance, or specified possession, control, viewing, or solicitation of child sexual abuse material.

VariesVaries

Transmission of Child Sexual Abuse Material

Florida Statute § 847.0137

Knowingly or with reason to know transmitting child sexual abuse material by electronic device or equipment.

FelonySecond Degree

Transmission of Harmful Material to a Minor

Florida Statute § 847.0138

Knowingly transmitting material harmful to minors to a specific individual known or believed to be a minor.

FelonyThird Degree

Unlawful Sexual Activity with Certain Minors

Florida Statute § 794.05

Sexual activity by a person 24 years of age or older with a person 16 or 17 years of age.

FelonySecond Degree

Written Solicitation of Certain Minors to Commit a Lewd or Lascivious Act

Florida Statute § 794.053

A written solicitation by a person 24 or older asking a person 16 or 17 to commit a lewd or lascivious act.

FelonyThird Degree