{"data":{"id":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-14-202.7","jurisdiction":"us-nc","citation":"N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-202.7","heading":"Sexual extortion; aggravated sexual extortion.","body":"(a)\tDefinitions. - The following definitions apply in this section:\n(1)\tAdult. - A person 18 years or older.\n(2)\tDisclose. - To transfer, publish, distribute, or reproduce.\n(3)\tImage. - A photograph, film, videotape, recording, live transmission, digital or computer-generated visual depiction, including a realistic visual depiction created, adapted, or modified by technological means, including algorithms or artificial intelligence, such that a reasonable person would believe the image depicts an identifiable individual, or any other reproduction that is created, adapted, or modified by electronic, mechanical, or other means.\n(4)\tImmediate family member. - As defined in G.S. 14-43.17.\n(5)\tIndividual with a disability. - As defined in G.S. 14-32.1.\n(6)\tMinor. - A person who has not reached the age of 18 years.\n(7)\tPrivate image. - An image depicting sexual activity or sexually explicit nudity.\n(8)\tSexual activity. - As defined in G.S. 14-190.13.\n(9)\tSexually explicit nudity. - As defined in G.S. 14-190.13.\n(b)\tSexual Extortion. - A person commits the offense of sexual extortion if the person intentionally threatens to disclose a private image, or to decline to delete, remove, or retract a previously disclosed private image, of the victim or of an immediate family member of the victim in order to compel or attempt to compel the victim or an immediate family member of the victim to do any act or refrain from doing any act against the victim's will, with the intent to obtain additional private images or anything else of value or any acquittance, advantage, or immunity. A violation of this subsection is punishable as follows:\n(1)\tFor an offense by a person who is an adult at the time of the offense, the violation is a Class F felony.\n(2)\tFor a first offense by a person who is a minor at the time of the offense, the violation is a Class 1 misdemeanor.\n(3)\tFor a second or subsequent offense by a person who is a minor at the time of the offense, the violation is a Class F felony.\n(c)\tAggravated Sexual Extortion. - A person commits the offense of aggravated sexual extortion if the person intentionally threatens to disclose a private image, or to decline to delete, remove, or retract a previously disclosed private image, of the victim or of an immediate family member of the victim in order to compel or attempt to compel the victim or an immediate family member of the victim to do any act or refrain from doing any act against the victim's will, with the intent to obtain additional private images or anything else of value or any acquittance, advantage, or immunity, and the victim is a minor or an individual with a disability and the person is an adult at the time of the offense. A violation of this subsection shall be punishable as a Class E felony. (2024-37, s. 1.)","path":["Chapter 14. Criminal Law.","SUBCHAPTER VII. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC MORALITY AND DECENCY.","Article 26. Offenses Against Public Morality and Decency."],"source_url":"https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_14/GS_14-202.7.html","current_through":"S.L. 2026-30","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:56:32Z","sha256":"0243212fe1d745b530e712b73d26e90c9218aaefa030a81f1616b753565eb966","source_id":"us-nc","stale":false,"prev":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-14-202.6","next":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-14-202.8"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}