New Hampshire § 649-B:4 Certain Uses of Computer Services Prohibited

New Hampshire Statutes

§ 649-B:4 — Certain Uses of Computer Services Prohibited

New Hampshire·Title LXII CRIMINAL CODE·Ch. 649-B COMPUTER PORNOGRAPHY AND CHILD EXPLOITATION PREVENTION

I. No person shall knowingly utilize a computer on-line service, internet service, or local bulletin board service to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice a child or another person believed by the person to be a child, to commit any of the following:

(a)Any offense under RSA 632-A, relative to sexual assault and related offenses.

(b)Indecent exposure and lewdness under RSA 645:1.

(c)Endangering a child as defined in RSA 639:3, III. II.

(a)A person who violates the provisions of paragraph I shall be guilty of a class A felony if such person believed the child was under the age of 13, otherwise such person shall be guilty of a class B felony.

(b)A person convicted under paragraph I based on an indictment alleging that the person has been previously convicted of an offense under this section

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I. No person shall knowingly utilize a computer on-line service, internet service, or local bulletin board service to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice a child or another person believed by the person to be a child, to commit any of the following:
(a) Any offense under RSA 632-A, relative to sexual assault and related offenses.
(b) Indecent exposure and lewdness under RSA 645:1.
(c) Endangering a child as defined in RSA 639:3, III.
II. (a) A person who violates the provisions of paragraph I shall be guilty of a class A felony if such person believed the child was under the age of 13, otherwise such person shall be guilty of a class B felony.
(b) A person convicted under paragraph I based on an indictment alleging that the person has been previously convicted of an offense under this section or a reasonably equivalent offense in an out-of-state jurisdiction shall be charged as a class A felony. If the indictment also alleges that the person believed that the child was under the age of 13, the person may be sentenced to a maximum sentence not to exceed 20 years and a minimum sentence not to exceed 10 years.
(c) If the person has been previously convicted 2 or more times for an offense under this section or a reasonably equivalent statute in another state, the person may be sentenced to a maximum term not to exceed 30 years.
III. It shall not be a defense to a prosecution under this section that the victim was not actually a child so long as the person reasonably believed that the victim was a child.

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