Meeting a young person for sexual grooming

Question 1

What section is meeting a young person for sexual grooming?

Answer 1

S131B

Question 2

What is meeting a young person for sexual grooming?

Answer 2

After having met or communicated with a young person the offender does the following:

• intentionally meets the young person
• travels with the intention to meet the young person
• arranges/persuades the young person to travel with the intention to meet him or her

and at the time of the arrangements he or she intends
-to do or have the young person do on him or her an act that would be a sexual offence if done in New Zealand

Question 3

Who else can be included in definiton of a young person under this section

Answer 3

Any constable who pretends to be under the age of 16 if the offender believes that the fictitious young person was in fact a young person when taking any action.

Question 4

What are the defences to this offence?

Answer 4

If the person charged can prove that

• before taking any action had taken reasonable steps to estalish whether the young person was of or over 16 years old and
• at the time they BORG that the young eprson was of or over 16 years of age

Question 5

When is the offence complete?

Answer 5

When the parties meet or defendant travels or makes arrangements to meet the complainant with the relevant intent

Question 6

When does this offence apply?

Answer 6

All cases where the offender or complainant is a NZ citizen or is ordinarily resident in NZ even if offence occurred outside NZ.