SB 86 — Creating criminal offense of sexual extortion

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reporteddefining onterms; January 31, 2022]     A BILL to amend and reenact §61-2-13 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the offenses of extortion and attempted extortion;

includingand threatsestablishing tocriminal publishpenalties. images of a person’s intimate body parts as a means of committing extortion or attempted extortion;

  defining  the  phrase  “anythingAdopted ofRejected value,  or  other consideration” to include certain defined sexual acts and defining “images of intimate body parts”;

and setting forth criminal penalties.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:     Article 2.

Crimes Against the Person.

§61-2-13.

Extortion or attempted extortion by threats;

penalties.

 (a) A person who threatens injury to the character, person, or property, or other thing of value of another person, or to the character, person, or property, or other thing of value of his or her spouse or child, threatens to publish in any manner images of another person's intimate body parts, or accuses him or her or them of a criminal offense, and thereby obtains anything of value, or other consideration, he or she is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be confined imprisoned in a state correctional facility for not less than one year nor more than five 10 years.

A person who makes such threat of injury or accusation of an offense as set forth in this section, but fails to obtain anything of value or other consideration, is guilty of a misdemeanor felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be confined imprisoned in jail a state correctional facility for not less than one year two nor more than 12 months three years and fined not less than $50 $1,000 nor more than $500 $5,000, or both fined and imprisoned.

(b) For purposes of this article, “consideration” includes sexual acts as defined in §61-8B-1 of this code, and images of intimate parts defined in §61-8-28a of this code.

(b) As used in this section, the phrase "anything of value, or other consideration” includes, but is not limited to, sexual acts as defined in §61-8B-1 of this code, and the term “intimate body parts” has the same meaning as set forth in §61-8-28a of this code.

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