Makes threatening to share child sexual abuse material a crime, even if it doesn't exist.
This bill would make it a federal crime to threaten someone with sharing child sexual abuse material, even if the material doesn't actually exist. It would also increase prison sentences by 10 years for those who use such material to extort or scare victims. These changes aim to give more protection to children and victims.
Today, federal law makes it illegal to create, share, or own child sexual abuse material, but it doesn't specifically criminalize *threatening* to share it or add extra penalties for using it to extort victims. This bill would make threatening to distribute child sexual abuse material a federal crime, even if the material doesn't exist, and would increase maximum prison sentences by 10 years for those who use it to intimidate or extort.
S 3398 · 119th Congress · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 8/10
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