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Ark. Code Ann. § 5-27-602

Distributing, possessing, or viewing of matter depicting sexually explicit conduct involving a child

Applied in 25 court decisions — leading case United States v. Moreland (2011)

Most recently applied in Alberto Dominguez v. State of Arkansas (March 2026)

Acts 2001, No. 1496, § 1; 2003, No. 1087, § 3; 2005, No. 1994, § 492.

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(1) A person commits distributing, possessing, or viewing of matter depicting sexually explicit conduct involving a child if the person knowingly: Receives for the purpose of selling or knowingly sells, procures, manufactures, gives, provides, lends, trades, mails, delivers, transfers, publishes, distributes, circulates, disseminates, presents, exhibits, advertises, offers, or agrees to offer through any means, including the Internet, any photograph, film, videotape, computer program or file, video game, or any other reproduction or reconstruction that depicts a child or incorporates the image of a child engaging in sexually explicit conduct; or

(2) Possesses or views through any means, including on the Internet, any photograph, film, videotape, computer program or file, computer-generated image, video game, or any other reproduction that depicts a child or incorporates the image of a child engaging in sexually explicit conduct.

(3) Distributing, possessing, or viewing of matter depicting sexually explicit conduct involving a child is a: Class C felony for the first offense; and

(4) Class B felony for any subsequent offense.

(5) It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution under this section that the defendant in good faith reasonably believed that the person depicted in the matter was seventeen (17) years of age or older.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.