(1) A person shall not threaten to distribute by post, email, text, or transmit, by electronic means or otherwise, a private image or moving images of the other person engaged in sexually explicit conduct, with the specific intent to
(a) harass, threaten, coerce, intimidate or exert any undue influence on the person, especially to extort money or other consideration or to compel the victim to engage in unwanted sexual activity; or
(b) actually extort money or other consideration or compel the victim to engage in unwanted sexual activity.
(2) A person shall not threaten to distribute by post, email, text, or transmit, by electronic means or otherwise, an intimate image of a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct, with the specific intent to
(a) harass, threaten, coerce, or intimidate the person, especially with intent to extort money or other consideration or to compel the victim to engage in unwanted sexual activity; or
(b) actually extort money or other consideration or compel the victim to engage in unwanted sexual activity.
(3) For the purposes of subsections (1) and (2), an intimate image may include a depiction in a way that the genital or anal region of another person is bare or covered only by underwear; or the breasts below the top of the areola, that is either uncovered or clearly visible through clothing.
(4) A person who contravenes subsection (1) or (2) commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a term of imprisonment of not less than ten years and not more than twenty-five years.
Other Online Sexual Offences