Can Adults Be Charged for Sexting in Illinois? Attorneys Christopher Combs and Joshua Boardman from Combs Waterkotte discuss everything you need to know about Illinois sex crime charges, including sexual assault, sexual abuse, rape, and more.
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Interview Transcript
Scott Michael Dunn: Can adults be charged for sexting in Illinois?
Joshua Boardman: Absolutely. You can be charged at a felony level for, for example, if you are sexting with another adult and you then disseminate the content of those messages or videos, images to somebody else without consent.
Christopher Combs: Commonly referred to as revenge porn.
Boardman: Revenge porn is kind of the term of art within prosecutors, state’s attorneys, defense attorneys, things like that. They’re called revenge porn statutes. So, that is a felony level offense disseminating that without consent. Adults can be charged with sexting with minors obviously because that in and of itself based on the age classification is felonious behavior. So, yes.
