What Are Federal Sex Crime Charges? Chris Combs and Andrew Russek of Combs Waterkotte discuss the most common federal sex crime charges.
Interview Transcript
Scott Michael Dunn: Well, let’s talk about federal sex crimes. What, what are federal sex crimes?
Andrew Russek: So the–
Scott Michael Dunn: How are they classified? The charges?
Andrew Russek: The most common sex crimes, I’d say you see, are, for lack of a better term, trafficking, solicitation, or enticement of a minor.
Those are gonna be either crossing state lines to meet a minor, or, really, the most common we’ll see is communicating with minors from other states, because again, you’re using the wire, which is the Internet, to communicate with them.
Child porn being sent online, all the federal– I mean, even technically sending child porn in the mail, anything like that, the federal government will pick up–
Chris Combs: Even– sorry to interrupt you– but even possession of child pornography. Because, again: Internet. Downloading it. So that’s another common sex– that’s probably the most common sex crime you see in federal court, is possession of child pornography.
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