Amends Section 2252A and 2252 of title 18, to prohibit threats to minors involving sexual exploitation and distribution of child pornography.
Aims to criminalize distribution, offering, or sending of threats to distribute visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
Aims to prevent creation or transmission of visual depictions of sexually explicit conduct involving minors.
Combating Online Predators Act of 2025 or the COP Act of 2025
This bill establishes new federal criminal offenses for threatening to distribute a visual depiction of a minor (or person believed to be a minor) engaging in sexually explicit conduct with the intent that the minor (or person believed to be a minor) create or transmit a visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct. (This practice is commonly referred to as sextortion.) The bill also prohibits attempts and conspiracies to commit the offenses.
