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Article: Key Areas Of New Bill
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- June 19, 2008
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Cybersex
THE bill defines the new offence of indecent communication as
occurring when a person intentionally delivers a sexual message to
another person.
The offence requires that the person sends the communication to
obtain sexual gratification, or to humiliate, distress or alarm the
recipient. It can be a word in someone's ear, a page from a porn
magazine, or an e-mail or text.
Someone who sends an offensive e-mail to a group of colleagues,
friends and other people could be breaking this law. However, the
Crown would have to prove that the purpose of sending the e-mail had
been malicious, or for a sexual "thrill".
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