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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56184</law_id><section_number>18.2-374.4</section_number><catch_line>Display of child pornography or grooming video or materials to a child unlawful; penalty</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>17.1-805</reference><reference>19.2-268.3</reference><reference>19.2-392.02</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="5">Obscenity and Related Offenses</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Any person 18 years of age or older who displays child pornography or a <span class="dictionary">grooming video or materials</span> to a child under 13 years of age with the <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to entice, solicit, or encourage the child to engage in the fondling of the sexual or genital parts of another or the fondling of his sexual or genital parts by another, sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus, anal intercourse, or <span class="dictionary">object</span> sexual penetration is guilty of a Class 6 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>. <a id="paragraph-205864" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-374.4/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Grooming video or materials</span>&#x201D; means a cartoon, animation, image, or series of images depicting a child engaged in the fondling of the sexual or genital parts of another or the fondling of his sexual or genital parts by another, masturbation, sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus, anal intercourse, or <span class="dictionary">object</span> sexual penetration. <a id="paragraph-205865" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-374.4/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2012, c. 624.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
