What is Internet Sex Crimes

Internet Sex crimes are aggressively prosecuted in whole state and federal courts. If law enforcement discovers that your computer hard drive contains any images or files deemed to be illegal sexually explicit images, chats or videos you will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Your conviction of any computer sex crime statute will result a state or federal prison sentence of up to 20 years, fines that can be as much as $200,000 and life-time registration as a sex offender.



To defend the Michigan internet sex crimes charges,  you need to retain an Michigan attorney who knows what resources are required to aggressively defend your case. Here is the summary of Michigan internet sex crimes that are committed with the aid of computer. 


Using a computer to communicate with another to commit a sex crime: 10, 15, or 20 years to life in prison, depending on the age of the victim and facts of the case.


Sexually abusive material depicting a child: Knowingly producing, distributing, or possessing child sexually abusive material. Punishable by up to 20 years in prison depending on the facts of the case.


Soliciting a minor for immoral purposes: Punishable by up to 4 years in prison.


Cyber harassment: Posting information on the internet about a person, through any means of communication that you know could cause harm or harassment to the other person. Punishable by up to 2 years in prison.


Video voyeurism: Photographing a person naked or while scantily dressed when the person has a reasonable expectation of privacy. Punishable by up to 5 years in prison.


If you are convicted of using a computer to commit a sex crime, and the underlying sex crime, you face consecutive sentencing. This means you first serve the sentence on the underlying crime, and then begin serving the sentence on the computer crime. Once on probation or parole, you will have little or no use of a computer.


Crime using a computer to commit a sex crime has a broad definition of computer. It includes any computer, game device, cellular telephone, tablet or any other handheld device. Any device with a computing function, and connects to the internet will be considered a computer for purposes of this crime. Don’t live the rest of your life labeled as a sex offender, start building your criminal defense as soon as possible. Experienced sex crimes lawyers are eager to start working on your Internet sex crime case.

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