Coercion and Sexual Abuse Free Environment Act

This section would let the Act be called the Coercion and Sexual Abuse Free Environment Act of 2025, or the CSAFE Act of 2025.

This section would add a new crime to 18 U.S.C. 2422, the federal law on coercion and enticement of minors. Under the new provision, anyone who uses the mail, any facility or means of interstate or foreign commerce, or acts within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, and who intentionally compels a minor to engage in self-harm (including suicide or attempted suicide), commit animal crushing as defined in 18 U.S.C. 48, engage in abusive or degrading nonsexual conduct (whether or not it causes physical injury), engage in sexually explicit conduct as defined in 18 U.S.C. 2256(2)(A), or engage in obscene speech, would be subject to criminal punishment, as would anyone who attempts or conspires to do this. A violation would be punished by a fine, imprisonment for not more than 10 years, or both. If the conduct results in serious bodily injury, the punishment would be a fine, imprisonment for not more than 20 years, or both. If it results in death, the punishment would be a fine, imprisonment for any term of years or for life, or both. For this new crime, the term compel would include using a threat, extortion, blackmail, fraud, deceit, or manipulation. This section would also make a conforming change to the juvenile delinquency law at 18 U.S.C. 5032, replacing its cross-reference to section 2241(c) with cross-references to both section 2241(c) and section 2242(c).