Child Protection System

Child Protection System
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(February 17, 2012)
Child Protection System
Current law on Child Sexual Abuse
Sexual abuse in minors has been identified as maltreatment and harassment of a minor within the American federal law. Child harassment is illegal in all the American states. This also includes the federal law. Within the various states, the child abuse laws specifics vary. On the contrary, certain characteristics of these laws are similar among all the states.
The law on sexual exploitation and molestation in children is found in Code, Title 18, Part 1, and Chapter 10 of the American law. Part of (a) of this law states than any individual employing, using, persuading, enticing, or coercing any child to participate in sexual explicit conduct for the objective of getting any observable depiction of such conduct will be punished by law. The law also states that an individual having the custody of a minor who knowingly allows the minors to participate in sexual explicit characteristics shall also be punished by the law. Additionally, the law states that any person making, printing or publishing a notice aimed at get, produce or reproduce visual depictions shall be punished by the law (Spratt, 2001).
There are also the laws which deal with given practices which relate to material constituting sexual harassment among minors. These laws are found within Title 18, Part 1, and Chapter 10. It states that an individual transporting or shipping minors between and within boundaries by any means shall be prosecuted by the American law. This includes individuals who produce such like visual depiction constituting the utilization of a child to engage in sexually explicit behavior. It also includes such conduct like visual depiction. In addition, a person knowingly receiving or distributing visual depictions mailed or transported shall be punished by the law.
The fact that minors are not normally in a position to give consent within the law provides a big challenge. The word “minor” denotes an individual who has not yet attained the majority age. This is the age whereby a person is able to give consent in any legal issue. On the contrary, the real laws and the optimal ages which make up breach of laws vary from state to state. An individual who engages in sexual activity with a child below the ages of sixteen to eighteen no matter the seemingly consent of the child or compliance constitutes an offence. This is according to federal law. In the majority of the states, a lot severe sentences and cases are found within young kids of less than twelve years. Additionally, in the majority of the states plus their individual penal cords, some exceptions occur in a case whereby the sexual activity takes place between a young adult and a child whose age brackets are adjacent to each other. The above exception prevents prosecuting the young adult with a sexual offence. This normally occurs in cases where...