The lost child: Congress's inability to protect our teenagers

Northwestern University Law Review

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1307-1315

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1. The increase in cases is reflected also by the increase in task forces initiated to combat the problem. Currently, Cook County, local police departments, the State of Illinois Attorney General's Office, and the federal government investigate Internet luring cases.
2. 18 U.S.C.A. § 2423(b) (West Supp. 1998).
3. "A person who travels in interstate commerce . . . for the purpose of engaging in a sexual act (as defined by section 2246) with a person under the age of 18 years of age that would be in violation of chapter 109A if the sexual act occurred in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both." 18 U.S.C. 2423(b).
4. H.R. REP. NO. 104-90, at 4 (1995).
5. 18 U.S.C. §§ 2251-2252 cover offenses involving the creation and distribution of child pornography. First time offenders who traffic in child pornography face an enhanced sentence of 30 to 37 months as a base level under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines; whereas, a defendant who violates 18 U.S.C. 2423(b) faces a base offense level of 18 to 24 months under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. U.S. SENTENCING GUIDELINES MANUAL §§ 2A3.1-3 (1995).
6. Pub. L. No. 104-71, 109 Stat. 774 (codified as amended at 18 U.S.C.A. § 2423 (West Supp. 1998)).
7. Pub. L. No. 104-208, 110 Stat. 3009-26 (codified at 18 U.S.C.A. § 2252A (West Supp. 1998)).
8. S. 900, 105th Cong. (1997).
9. S. 1987, 105th Cong. (1998); H.R. 3494, 105th Cong. (1998).
10. See 18 U.S.C.A. §§ 2241-2248 (West Supp. 1998).
11. 18 U.S.C.A. § 2243 (West Supp. 1998).
12. 18 U.S.C.A. § 2243(a) (West Supp. 1998).
13. UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES MANUAL § 2A3.2 (1995); see also UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES [hereinafter USSG] app. A (1997).
14. UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES MANUAL § 2A3.2 (1995); see also UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES [hereinafter USSG] app. A (1997).
15. See USSG § 2A3.2(a).
16. See USSG ch.5, pt. A (1997).
17. See id. § 3E1.1 (1997).
18. 18 U.S.C.A. § 2241(c) (West Supp. 1998).
19. See 18 U.S.C.A. § 2241 (West Supp. 1998).
20. USSG § 2A3.1(a) (1997).
21. USSG § 2A3.1 (1997).
22. The original "Mann Act," 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a) contains no such reference.
23. See generally KENNETH V. LANNING, NATIONAL CTR. FOR EXPLOITED AND MISSING CHILDREN, CHILD MOLESTERS: A BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS (1992). For a more detailed discussion of diagnostic categories and child molesters, see J. Michael Bailey & Aaron Greenberg, The Science and Ethics of Castration: Lessons from the Morse Case, 92 NW. U. L. REV. 1225, nn.2 & 4 and accompanying text (1998).
24. See generally KENNETH V. LANNING, NATIONAL CTR. FOR EXPLOITED AND MISSING CHILDREN, CHILD MOLESTERS: A BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS (1992). For a more detailed discussion of diagnostic categories and child molesters, see J. Michael Bailey & Aaron Greenberg, The Science and Ethics of Castration: Lessons from the Morse Case, 92 NW. U. L. REV. 1225, nn.2 & 4 and accompanying text (1998).
25. See id.
26. USSG 2G1.1(b)(2) (1997).
27. See id.
28. Pub. L. No. 104-71, 109 Stat. 774 (codified as amended at 18 U.S.C.A. § 2423 (West Supp. 1998)).
29. See Pub. L. No. 1004-71, 109 Stat. 774 § 4 (codified as amended at 18 U.S.C.A. § 2423 (1995)).
30. See id. § 3.
31. 18 U.S.C.A. § 2423(a) (West Supp. 1998).
32. 18 U.S.C.A. § 2423(b). (West Supp. 1998).
33. S. 900, 105th Cong. § 3(1) (1997).
34. S. 1987, 105th Cong. (1998); H.R. 3494, 105th Cong. (1998).
35. S. 1987, 105th Cong. § 107 (1998).
36. Id. § 201(b).