New Jersey A2951 revises child pornography laws, enhancing penalties and clarifying definitions.

New Jersey A2951 amends the state's child pornography laws by upgrading certain offenses to higher degrees, clarifying definitions, and establishing new penalties. It makes it a first-degree crime for anyone to cause or permit a child to engage in or simulate a prohibited sexual act knowing it would be photographed or reproduced. Possession of child pornography is upgraded to a third-degree crime. The bill also introduces the crime of "virtual" child pornography, making it a second-degree crime to use a device to produce or reproduce an image of a child in a prohibited sexual act.

New Jersey A2951 revises child pornography laws, enhancing penalties and clarifying definitions.

New Jersey A2951 amends the state's child pornography laws by upgrading certain offenses to higher degrees, clarifying definitions, and establishing new penalties. It makes it a first-degree crime for anyone to cause or permit a child to engage in or simulate a prohibited sexual act knowing it would be photographed or reproduced. Possession of child pornography is upgraded to a third-degree crime. The bill also introduces the crime of "virtual" child pornography, making it a second-degree crime to use a device to produce or reproduce an image of a child in a prohibited sexual act.