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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>60265</law_id><section_number>18.2-370</section_number><catch_line>Taking indecent liberties with children; penalties</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>16.1-272</reference><reference>16.1-69.55</reference><reference>17.1-805</reference><reference>18.2-251.03</reference><reference>18.2-359</reference><reference>18.2-370.1</reference><reference>18.2-370.2</reference><reference>18.2-374.3</reference><reference>18.2-61.1</reference><reference>18.2-67.5:2</reference><reference>18.2-67.7</reference><reference>18.2-67.7:1</reference><reference>18.2-67.8</reference><reference>19.2-11.5</reference><reference>19.2-163</reference><reference>19.2-268.2</reference><reference>19.2-268.3</reference><reference>19.2-271.2</reference><reference>19.2-299</reference><reference>19.2-303</reference><reference>19.2-392.02</reference><reference>22.1-289.041</reference><reference>63.2-1530</reference><reference>9.1-902</reference><reference>9.1-923</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="18.2">Crimes and Offenses Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="8">Crimes Involving Morals and Decency</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Family Offenses; Crimes Against Children, etc</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Any person 18 years of age or over, who, with lascivious <span class="dictionary">intent</span>, knowingly and intentionally commits any of the following acts with any child under the age of 15 years is guilty of a Class 5 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>: <a id="paragraph-220395" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-370/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Expose his or her sexual or genital parts to any child to whom such person is not legally married or propose that any such child expose his or her sexual or genital parts to such person; or <a id="paragraph-220396" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-370/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> [Repealed.] <a id="paragraph-220397" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-370/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Propose that any such child feel or fondle his own sexual or genital parts or the sexual or genital parts of such person or propose that such person feel or fondle the sexual or genital parts of any such child; or <a id="paragraph-220398" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-370/#A3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A4" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> Propose to such child the performance of an act of sexual intercourse, anal intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, or anilingus or any act constituting an <span class="dictionary">offense</span> under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Crimes against nature; penalty" href="/18.2-361/">18.2-361</a>; or <a id="paragraph-220399" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-370/#A4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A5" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> Entice, allure, persuade, or invite any such child to enter any vehicle, room, house, or other place, for any of the purposes set forth in the preceding subdivisions of this subsection. <a id="paragraph-220400" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-370/#A5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Any person 18 years of age or over who, with lascivious <span class="dictionary">intent</span>, knowingly and intentionally receives money, property, or any other remuneration for allowing, encouraging, or enticing any person under the age of 18 years to perform in or be a subject of sexually explicit visual <span class="dictionary">material</span> as defined in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Production, publication, sale, financing, etc., of child pornography; presumption as to age" href="/18.2-374.1/">18.2-374.1</a> or who knowingly encourages such person to perform in or be a subject of sexually explicit <span class="dictionary">material</span> is guilty of a Class 5 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>. <a id="paragraph-220401" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-370/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Any person who is convicted of a second or subsequent violation of this section is guilty of a Class 4 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>, provided that (i) the <span class="dictionary">offenses</span> were not part of a common act, transaction or scheme; (ii) the <span class="dictionary">accused</span> was at liberty as defined in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Eligibility for parole" href="/53.1-151/">53.1-151</a> between each <span class="dictionary">conviction</span>; and (iii) it is admitted, or found by the <span class="dictionary">jury</span> or <span class="dictionary">judge</span> before whom the person is tried, that the <span class="dictionary">accused</span> was previously convicted of a violation of this section. <a id="paragraph-220402" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-370/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> Any parent, step-parent, grandparent, or step-grandparent who commits a violation of either this section or clause (v) or (vi) of subsection A of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Taking indecent liberties with child by person in custodial or supervisory relationship; penalties" href="/18.2-370.1/">18.2-370.1</a> (i) upon his child, step-child, grandchild, or step-grandchild who is at least 15 but less than 18 years of age is guilty of a Class 5 <span class="dictionary">felony</span> or (ii) upon his child, step-child, grandchild, or step-grandchild less than 15 years of age is guilty of a Class 4 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>. <a id="paragraph-220403" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-370/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 18.1-213 through 18.1-215; 1960, c. 358; 1973, c. 131; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1979, c. 348; 1981, c. 397; 1986, c. 503; 2000, c. 333; 2001, cc. 776, 840; 2005, cc. 185, 762; 2013, cc. 423, 470; 2014, c. 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
