You could be charged with a violation of California Penal Code Section 288.2 INTERNET SEX WITH MINOR 288.2. (a) (1) Every person who, with knowledge that a person is a minor, or who fails to exercise reasonable care in ascertaining the true age of a minor, knowingly distributes, sends, causes to be sent, exhibits, or offers to distribute or exhibit by any means, including, but not limited to, live or recorded telephone messages, any harmful matter, as defined in Section 313, to a minor with the intent of arousing, appealing to, or gratifying the lust or passions or sexual desires of that person or of a minor, and with the intent or for the purpose of seducing a minor, is guilty of a public offense and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison or in a county jail. Because it can be punished with state prison or county jail this is a charge that could be filed as a felony or a misdemeanor. If convicted of a misdemeanor you could get up to a year in county jail. if convicted of a felony you could do 16 months, two years, or three years in state prison.
Answered on Dec 05th, 2012 at 11:39 PM