Crimes Act 1958
49ICausing a child aged 16 or 17 under care, supervision or authority to be present during sexual activity
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49I Causing a child aged 16 or 17 under care, supervision or authority to be present during sexual activity
(e) C is—
(f) A's causing or allowing C to be present when B engages in the activity is contrary to community standards of acceptable conduct.
(3) Whether or not causing or allowing C to be present when B engages in the activity is contrary to community standards of acceptable conduct depends on the circumstances.
(ii) whether A seeks or gets sexual arousal or sexual gratification from B engaging in the activity or from the presence of C;
(5) For the purposes of subsection (1), when B engages in an activity, C may be present—
(b) by means of an electronic communication within the meaning of the Electronic Transactions (Victoria) Act 2000 that is received by C in real time or close to real time.
(6) It is immaterial that some or all of the conduct constituting an offence against subsection (1) occurred outside Victoria, so long as C was in Victoria at the time at which that conduct occurred.
(7) It is immaterial that C was outside Victoria at the time at which some or all of the conduct constituting an offence against subsection (1) occurred, so long as A was in Victoria at the time at which that conduct occurred.
3 A mistaken but honest and reasonable belief that the activity was not sexual or that causing or allowing C to be present when B engages in the activity was not contrary to community standards of acceptable conduct is not a defence to this offence—see section 49ZC.
S. 49J inserted by No. 47/2016 s. 16.