Part 4Children

Older children

33Causing an older child to look at a sexual image

(1)

If a person (“A”), who has attained the age of 16 years, intentionally and for a purpose mentioned in subsection (2) causes a child (“B”), who—

(a)

has attained the age of 13 years, but

(b)

has not attained the age of 16 years,

to look at a sexual image, then A commits an offence, to be known as the offence of causing an older child to look at a sexual image.

(2)

The purposes are—

(a)

obtaining sexual gratification,

(b)

humiliating, distressing or alarming B.

(3)

For the purposes of subsection (1), a sexual image is an image (produced by whatever means and whether or not a moving image) of—

(a)

A engaging in a sexual activity or of a third person or imaginary person so engaging,

(b)

A’s genitals or the genitals of a third person or imaginary person.