Under existing law, it is unlawful for a person to entice, allure, persuade, or invite; or attempt to entice, allure, persuade, or invite; a child under 16 years of age to enter any vehicle, room, house, or other place for the purpose of proposing the performance of a sexual act or for the purpose of committing an aggravated assault against the child. This bill would provide that it is unlawful for a person to entice, allure, persuade, groom, or invite; or attempt to entice, allure, persuade, groom, or invite; a child under 16 years of age to enter any vehicle, room, house, or other place for the purpose of proposing the performance of a sexual act or for the purpose of committing an aggravated assault against the child. Under existing law, a person who knowingly entices, induces, persuades, seduces, prevails, advises, coerces, lures, directs, or orders; or attempts to entice, induce, persuade, seduce, prevail, advise, coerce, lure, direct, or order; by electronic or digital means a child at least three years younger than the defendant, or another individual believed by the defendant to be a child at least three years younger than the defendant, to meet with any individual for the purpose of engaging in a sexual act is guilty of electronic solicitation of a child. This bill would provide that a person is guilty of electronic solicitation of a child if the person knowingly entices, induces, persuades, seduces, prevails, advises, coerces, lures, directs, grooms, or orders; or attempts to entice, induce, persuade, seduce, prevail, advise, coerce, lure, direct, groom, or order; a child who is at least three years younger than the defendant, or another individual the defendant believes to be a child at least three years younger than the defendant, to engage in a sex offense or genital mutilation. This bill would also provide that, for the purposes of jurisdiction, a crime involving the solicitation of a child by electronic means is committed in any county in which any part of the crime took place, a victim or defendant resided, or any image was received.