This web page contains the elements of the Colorado Crime of Internet Sexual Exploitation of a Child (18-3-405.4)
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(1) A person commits internet sexual exploitation of a child if a person, who is at least four years older than a child who is under fifteen years of age, knowingly importunes, invites, or entices the child through communication via a computer network or system to:
(a) Expose or touch the child’s own or another person’s intimate parts while communicating with the person via a computer network or system;
or
(b) Observe the person’s intimate parts while communicating with the person via a computer network or system.
(2) It shall not be an affirmative defense to this section that the child was actually a law enforcement officer posing as a child under fifteen years of age.
(3) Internet sexual exploitation of a child is a class 4 felony.