Ohio Internet importuning bill

A bill, introduced in the Ohio Senate yesterday, would create mandatory minimum prison terms for persons pleading or found guilty of soliciting minors for sexual purposes over the Internet, regardless of whether that person is aware of the minor’s true age or not, an article in this morning’s Enquirer relates.

Language is also contained making it applicable even though “the other person is a law enforcement officer posing as a person who is less than 13 years of age, and the offender believes that the other person is less than thirteen years of age or is reckless in that regard.”