Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act

This bill updates federal criminal laws related to kidnapping and sexual abuse of children. It says that tricking someone in order to take a person counts as kidnapping, and that a child under 16 cannot legally consent to being kidnapped unless the offender can show they reasonably believed the child was 16 or older. The bill also expands sexual abuse laws so that traveling across international borders (not just state lines) to have sexual contact with a child under 12 counts as a serious crime, and it makes attempting certain sexual offenses punishable the same as actually committing them.

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