False accusations can happen — making this a very frustrating charge to deal with. Many times, the defendant never completed the act with the minor. However, they are charged simply because they communicated in an inappropriate way with the minor. This communication could have taken place in a chat room, a chat program, email or even via text message on a cell phone.

Nonetheless, there are times when the individual being charged may have been entrapped by a law enforcement officer. In other words, they were coaxed into saying things they would not have said otherwise. The essence of the crime, however, is that an individual is talking to someone they believe to be a minor in a way that is inappropriate. This is different from when an individual is talking to a minor who claims to be 18 or older, thus the defendant has no knowledge that the person they are speaking to is 13 or supposedly 13. This could result in a false accusation.