If you know of true sex offender activity you should report the person or persons to the authorities at the following 800 number:
USA National Child Abuse Hotline, 1-800-422-4453
Please be responsible in your reporting and use the following as a guide. States all have different wording, but the following from the California Penal Code should serve as a guide:
Misdemeanor Behavior
CAL. PEN. CODE § 647: California Code - Section 647.6
(a) (1)
Every person who annoys or molests any child under
18 years of age shall be punished by a fine not
exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000), by
imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one
year, or by both the fine and imprisonment.
Legal definitions of annoy or molest are as follows:
"Conduct is so lewd or obscene that the normal person would unhesitatingly be irritated by it."
"‘Annoy’ and ‘molest’ are synonymous and mean to disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to vex; to trouble; to irk; or to offend. ‘Conduct which is so lewd that a normal person would unhesitatingly be disturbed or irritated by it."
Felony Behavior
CAL. PEN. CODE § 288 : California Code - Section 288
(a)Any person who willfully and lewdly commits any lewd or lascivious act, including any of the acts constituting other crimes provided for in Part 1, upon or with the body, or any part or member thereof, of a child who is under the age of 14 years, with the intent of arousing, appealing to, or gratifying the lust, passions, or sexual desires of that person or the child, is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
(b)(1)Any person who commits an act described in subdivision (a) by use of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
