Los Angeles Sex Crimes Lawyer

Los Angeles Sex Crimes Information 

• Indecent Exposure / Lewd Conduct - California crimes involving public sexual acts or the exposing of the genitals in a public place fall under the category of Indecent Exposure or Lewd Conduct.
• Sodomy - Anal copulation by a man inserting his penis in the anus either of a man or woman is known as Sodomy. Oral sex may also be included in the definition of Sodomy.
• Child Molestation / Child Abuse - Child Molestation and Child Abuse are crimes of sexual nature that include both sexual assault and sexual exploitation with a child under the age of 14. Read more about California laws and your Child Molestation / Child Abuse defense.
• Sexual Battery - The definition of Sexual Battery is unwanted sexual touching. Consent is required for all acts of sexual touching and, in many cases, ignored unwanted sexual touching may lead to Attempted Rape or Rape itself.
• Pornography (including possession or distribution) - Pornography includes photographs, writing, artwork, and other forms of sexually explicit material derived for the purpose of causing sexual arousal.
• Rape - When sexual intercourse is forced, the crime of Rape has been committed. In California, Rape is a felony with many variations.
• Important California Sex Crimes Laws:
  
  - Megan's Law is known as the Sexual Offender (Jacob Wetterling) Act of 1994 and requires persons convicted of sex crimes against children to notify local law enforcement of any change of address or employment after release from custody (prison, psychiatric facility). The notification requirement may be imposed for a fixed period of time - usually at least ten years - or permanently. Megan's Law provides two major information services to the public: sex offender registration and community notification. As a result of a new law, a Website provides the general public with access to information on more than 63,000 persons required to register in California as sex offenders. Specific home addresses are displayed on more than 33,500 offenders in the California communities; as to these persons, the site displays the last registered address reported by the offender. An additional 30,500 offenders are included on the site with listing by ZIP Code, city, and county. Information on approximately 22,000 other offenders is not included on this site, but is known to law enforcement personnel.
  
  - The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act supplements Megan's Law with new registration requirements and a "three-tier" system for classifying sex offenders according to their risk to the community.
  
  - Penal Code section 288 - Any person who willfully and lewdly commits any lewd or lascivious act, including any of the acts constituting other crimes provided for in Part 1, upon or with the body, or any part or member thereof, of a child who is under the age of 14 years, with the intent of arousing, appealing to, or gratifying the lust, passions, or sexual desires of that person or the child, is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
  
  - California Penal Code Section 289 - Any person who commits an act of sexual penetration when the act is accomplished against the victim's will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.