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Prosecutors seek longer statute of limitations and expanded exploitation offense; defenders urge constitutional caution and treatment alternatives
Summary
Senate Bill 5094 would lengthen the statute of limitations for depiction offenses to 10 years, expand the exploitation offense to cover unconscious minors, and remove an identifiable‑minor requirement for certain fabricated depictions.
Senate Bill 5094, which the Law & Justice Committee heard Jan. 16, would change Washington law on depictions of minors and expand the statute of limitations for some offenses. The measure would: remove the requirement that a fabricated depiction show an identifiable minor for purposes of criminal liability; increase the statute of limitations for dealing in, sending, bringing into the state, possessing, or viewing sexual depictions of minors from three to ten years; and expand the crime of sexual exploitation of a minor to cover situations in which a person knowingly causes an unconscious or unaware minor to be photographed or part of a live performance depicting sexually explicit conduct.
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