Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act

This bill updates federal crime laws related to kidnapping and sexual abuse of children. It says that tricking someone into handing over a victim 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 to cover crossing international borders (not just state lines) with intent to commit sexual acts against children under 12, and it makes attempting certain sexual abuse offenses punishable the same as actually committing them. It also clarifies that knowingly causing a child under 16 to touch any person counts as sexual abuse of a minor.

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