The legal expert actually said it was not a crime... thats interesting.
In California we have Penal Code section 313.1
313.1. (a) 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 sells, rents, 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 to the minor shall be punished as
specified in Section 313.4.
313.4. Every person who violates Section 313.1, other than
subdivision (e), is punishable by fine of not more than two thousand
dollars ($2,000), by imprisonment in the county jail for not more
than one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment. However, if
the person has been previously convicted of a violation of Section
313.1, other than subdivision (e), or of any section of Chapter 7.5
(commencing with Section 311) of Title 9 of Part 1 of this code, the
person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison.
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