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Summary
This document, a page from a legal filing, discusses the challenges in legally defining and prosecuting sexual grooming. It examines various legal approaches in the United States, United Kingdom, Wales, and New Zealand, highlighting the difficulties in establishing a clear, measurable definition of grooming behavior. The text cites several academic sources and specific legal cases to illustrate the varied and often limited nature of laws designed to prevent this form of abuse.
People (7)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| N. Bennett | Author |
Listed as an author at the top of the page: 'N. Bennett and W. O’Donohue'.
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| W. O’Donohue | Author |
Listed as an author at the top of the page: 'N. Bennett and W. O’Donohue'.
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| Mower | Psychologist |
Cited source (Mower, 2012) for testimony provided by a psychologist in a Las Vegas sex offender case.
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| McAlinden | Author/Researcher |
Cited source (McAlinden, 2006) describing UK laws on grooming, including the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and the risk of...
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| Gillespie | Author/Researcher |
Cited source (Gillespie, 2004) who noted definitional problems with the construct of grooming.
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| O’Callaghan | Author/Researcher |
Cited source (O’Callaghan, 2011) who described a case in Wales involving grooming via Facebook.
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| Vance | Author/Researcher |
Cited source (Vance, 2012) who described a proposed law in New Zealand regarding online communication with minors.
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Organizations (1)
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| company |
Mentioned as the medium for inappropriate communication in a sexual grooming case in Wales.
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Timeline (3 events)
A recently convicted sex offender in Las Vegas, Nevada, is seeking to appeal his conviction based on unreliable testimony about his grooming behavior.
Las Vegas, Nevada
convicted sex offender
psychologist
defense attorney
A man in Wales pled guilty and was sentenced to a year in prison for one count of meeting a child following sexual grooming via Facebook.
Wales
a man in Wales
A law was proposed in New Zealand to provide a three-year prison sentence for online indecent communication with anyone under 16.
New Zealand
Locations (6)
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Location of a recently convicted sex offender who is appealing his conviction.
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Country with a federal law (18 USC § 2252A(a)(6)) criminalizing certain grooming-related activities.
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Country with the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which covers certain grooming behaviors.
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Abbreviation for United Kingdom, used in the context of a law designed to criminalize grooming.
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Location where a man was sentenced for sexual grooming that involved communication via Facebook.
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Country with a proposed law to imprison individuals for online 'indecent communication with anyone under 16.'
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Key Quotes (5)
"[Grooming] is not a proven science. It’s a behavioral thing. . . . How can you tell that this was in the mind of this guy?"Source
— defense attorney
(Claim made by the defense attorney for a convicted sex offender in Las Vegas appealing his conviction.)
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"the behavior of an offender who meets, or seeks to meet, a child with the intention of committing a sexual assault, if he has met or communicated with that child on at least two earlier occasions"Source
— Section 15 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003
(A definition of grooming covered by a law in the United Kingdom.)
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Quote #2
"a transient feature that is difficult to capture and virtually impossible to decide when it begins and ends"Source
— Gillespie (2004)
(A description of the definitional problems with the construct of grooming.)
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Quote #3
"Sections 123-9 introduce the risk of sexual harm order—a new civil preventative order which can be used to prohibit specified behaviours, including the ‘grooming’ of children. . . . This order effectively criminalizes acts which may be carried out for the purposes of sexual grooming, but only after an individual had been identified as posing a risk to children."Source
— McAlinden (2006)
(Description of another law in the UK designed to criminalize grooming.)
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Quote #4
"indecent communication with anyone under 16."Source
— Proposed law in New Zealand
(The activity that a proposed law in New Zealand aims to criminalize with a three-year prison sentence.)
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Quote #5
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