The Recruitment of Minors for Sexual Purposes in the New Romanian Criminal Law

AuthorMinodora Ioana Rusu
PositionAssistant Professor, PhD, Dimitrie Cantemir University of Bucharest, Romania
Pages57-64
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The Recruitment of Minors for Sexual
Purposes in the New Romanian Criminal
Law
Minodora Ioana RUSU
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Abstract: In th is paper we have examined the constitutive elements of the offense of recruitment of
minors for sexual purposes, having regard to the new depositions of the Romanian criminal law.
Within the examination we have taken into consideration the constitu tive content, forms, methods,
penalties and some procedural aspects. The innovative elements of this paper consist in highlighting
the importance and necessity of incriminating such act and to examine the new offenses introduced
into the Romanian law with the adoption of the new Criminal Code. The paper can be useful to law
students in Romania, the bodies with concrete responsibilities in judicial practice and to those who
want to improve their knowledge in this field.
Keywords: pre-existing elements; constitutive content; legal procedures
1. Introduction
The illegal recruitment of minors for sexual purposes provided for in article 222 of
the Criminal Code consists in the action of the adult to make a proposal to a minor
under the age of 13 years to meet for the purpose of committing an act as
mentioned in art. 220 or 221 of the Criminal Code, including when the proposal
was made by means of distance communication.
By incriminating this act, the legislator sought on the one hand to protect minors
from certain temptations regarding the sex life which could have negative effects in
the process of its development and on the other hand to protect minors against
possible solicitation thereof by a major to the commission of sexual intercourse,
oral or anal sexual acts and any acts of vaginal or anal penetration or other acts of a
sexual nature (other than those mentioned above).
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Assistant Professor, PhD, Dimitrie Cantemir University of Bucharest, Romania, Address: 176
Splaiul Unirii, Bucharest, Tel.: 021 330 8931, Corresponding author: oanarusu_86@yahoo.com.
AUDJ, vol. 13, no. 3/2017, pp. 57-64

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