Opinion ID: 163635
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Sex Offender Treatment Program

Text: 78 USSG § 5D1.3(d)(7) (2001 ed.) recommends the discretionary imposition of the following special condition of supervised release: 79 (7) Sex Offenses 80 If the instant offense of conviction is a sex offense, as defined in § 5D1.2 (Term of Supervised Release) — a condition requiring the defendant to participate in a program approved by the United States Probation Office for the treatment and monitoring of sex offenders. 81 USSG § 5D1.3(d)(7) (emphasis added). 82 Application Note 1 to § 5D1.2 defines a sex offense as an offense, perpetrated against a minor, under ... chapter 110 of [Title 18 of the United States Code], not including a recordkeeping offense. USSG § 5D1.2, comment. (n.1). Section 2252 is part of chapter 110; therefore, offenses under 18 U.S.C. § 2252 are qualifying offenses for the recommended imposition of the condition that Kimler participate in a sex offender treatment program. 83 Kimler's contention that § 5D1.3(d)(7) does not apply because he did not actually perpetrate an offense against a minor as the application note requires, Appellant's Br. at 28, is meritless for the same reasons set out above relating to DNA collection. 84 As Kimler acknowledges, the district court ruled that the child pornography offenses in this case were `perpetrated against a minor' within the meaning of the guideline defining `sex offense'. Order at 3, R. Vol. I, tab 52. That ruling and the imposition of the requirement that Kimler participate in a sex offender treatment program are not erroneous.