Commercial Sex Acts & Sexual Exploitation of Minors
- Enhancements will usually follow this type of indictment and the base offense level for promoting a commercial sex act other than with a minor is 14. Any type of fraud or coercion will give a 4 level increase.
- The promotion of a commercial sex act or prohibited sexual conduct with a minor. This includes the transportation of minors to engage in a commercial sex act or sexual conduct. The transportation aspect also includes when a defendant travels to engage in a sexual act with a minor. Trafficking of children for sex is included in this guideline. The base offense level is 24. However they enhancements are voluminous and will also be used to get the offense level much higher.
- The sexual exploitation of a minor through the production of video or still photographs. This is child pornography and includes pictures and videos. This guideline applies to the parent or custodian of the child that allows this to occur and or produces the pornographic content. Base offense level is a 32, which puts the prison term at 10 years to begin the case.
- Trafficking in material involving sexual exploitation of a minor and the possession of any material involving the sexual exploitation of a minor. This is the possession of child pornography on a computer, photos, and or video. The enhancements under this provision involve the age of the minor in the material, whether a computer was used and whether any money was exchange.
- If indicted for selling or buying a child for the production of child pornography has a base offense level of 38. This means a prison term in the 20+ years.
- Obscenity (2G3.1) includes the importing, mailing of obscene matter and or transferring the obscene matter to a minor. This also includes a misleading domain name on the internet. The base offense level is a 10.
