The court of appeals reversed a district court judgment. The court held that two Oregon statutes were invalid as unconstitutionally overbroad where they criminalized providing children with sexually explicit materials and visual, verbal, or narrative descriptions of sexual conduct.
Oregon enacted a pair of statutes intended to stop child sexual abuse in its early stages. The statutes broadly targeted practices of “luring” and “grooming” that exposed minors to sexually explicit materials in the hopes of lowering their inhibitions against engaging in sexual conduct.
