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Public Act 098-0919
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| HB5290 Enrolled | LRB098 17830 RLC 52954 b |
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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing |
Section 11-25 as follows:
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(720 ILCS 5/11-25) |
Sec. 11-25. Grooming. |
(a) A person commits the offense of grooming when he or she |
knowingly uses a computer on-line service, Internet service, |
local bulletin board service, or any other device capable of |
electronic data storage or transmission to seduce, solicit, |
lure, or entice, or attempt to seduce, solicit, lure, or |
entice, a child, a child's guardian, or another person believed |
by the person to be a child or a child's guardian, to commit |
any sex offense as defined in Section 2 of the Sex Offender |
Registration Act, to distribute photographs depicting the sex |
organs of the child, or to otherwise engage in any unlawful |
sexual conduct with a child or with another person believed by |
the person to be a child. |
(b) Sentence. Grooming is a Class 4 felony.
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(Source: P.A. 95-901, eff. 1-1-09.)
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