Penal Code 288.2 PC- Sending Harmful Matter of Intent with Seducing Minor

Penal Code 288.2 PC in California deals with the crime of sending harmful matter with the intent of seducing a minor. Specifically, it makes it illegal to distribute, exhibit, or send harmful material to a minor with the intent of arousing, appealing to, or gratifying the lust or passions or sexual desires of the sender or the minor.

The law is designed to protect minors from exposure to explicit or harmful materials. Violation of Penal Code 288.2 can result in criminal charges and penalties.

The language of the code section reads:

288.2. (a) (1) Every person who knows, should have known, or believes that another person is a minor, and who knowingly distributes, sends, causes to be sent, exhibits, or offers to distribute or exhibit by any means, including by physical delivery, telephone, electronic communication, or in person, any harmful matter that depicts a minor or minors engaging in sexual conduct, to the other person with the intent of arousing, appealing to, or gratifying the lust or passions or sexual desires of that person or of the minor, and with the intent or for the purposes of engaging in sexual intercourse, sodomy, or oral copulation with the other person, or with the intent that either person touch an intimate body part of the other, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or is guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or five years.