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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?121+ful+CHAP0624\">624<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":[{"id":350225,"section_number":"17.1-805","catch_line":"Adoption of initial discretionary sentencing guideline midpoints","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-805\/"},{"id":351537,"section_number":"19.2-268.3","catch_line":"Admissibility of statements by children in certain cases","order_by":null,"url":"\/19.2-268.3\/"},{"id":351833,"section_number":"19.2-392.02","catch_line":"National criminal background checks by businesses and organizations regarding employees or volunteers providing care to children or the elderly or disabled","order_by":null,"url":"\/19.2-392.02\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1394879,"object_type":"law","relational_id":350881,"identifier":"18.2-374.4","token":"18.2\/8\/5\/18.2-374.4","url":"\/18.2-374.4\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/18.2-374.4\/","token":"18.2\/8\/5\/18.2-374.4","dublin_core":{"Title":"Display of child pornography or grooming video or materials to a child unlawful; penalty","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 18.2-374.4","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"A\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">A.<\/span> Any person 18 years of age or older who displays child pornography or a <span class=\"dictionary\">grooming video or materials<\/span> to a child under 13 years of age with the <span class=\"dictionary\">intent<\/span> to entice, solicit, or encourage the child to engage in the fondling of the sexual or genital parts of another or the fondling of his sexual or genital parts by another, sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus, anal intercourse, or <span class=\"dictionary\">object<\/span> sexual penetration is guilty of a Class 6 <span class=\"dictionary\">felony<\/span>. <a id=\"paragraph-1307100\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/18.2-374.4\/#A\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"B\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">B.<\/span> &#8220;<span class=\"dictionary\">Grooming video or materials<\/span>&#8221; means a cartoon, animation, image, or series of images depicting a child engaged in the fondling of the sexual or genital parts of another or the fondling of his sexual or genital parts by another, masturbation, sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus, anal intercourse, or <span class=\"dictionary\">object<\/span> sexual penetration. <a id=\"paragraph-1307101\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/18.2-374.4\/#B\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nDISPLAY OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY OR GROOMING VIDEO OR MATERIALS TO A CHILD UNLAWFUL;\nPENALTY (\u00a7 18.2-374.4)\n\nA. Any person 18 years of age or older who displays child pornography or a\ngrooming video or materials to a child under 13 years of age with the intent to\nentice, solicit, or encourage the child to engage in the fondling of the sexual\nor genital parts of another or the fondling of his sexual or genital parts by\nanother, sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus, anal intercourse,\nor object sexual penetration is guilty of a Class 6 felony.\n\nB. &#8220;Grooming video or materials&#8221; means a cartoon, animation, image,\nor series of images depicting a child engaged in the fondling of the sexual or\ngenital parts of another or the fondling of his sexual or genital parts by\nanother, masturbation, sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus,\nanal intercourse, or object sexual penetration.\n\nHISTORY: 2012, c. 624.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}