Court Opinion

ID: 9557539
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 16:51:57.488408+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:05:56.457774
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Turner, J.
(concurring) — I concur in the result. To the extent that the majority requires that a defendant pose the victim or intend to alter her behavior in order to support a conviction under RCW 9.68A.040(l)(b), I disagree. A minor can be invited or caused to engage in an exhibition of genitals for the purpose of a viewer’s sexual stimulation without any posing of the child or altering of her behavior on the part of a defendant.
Exhibition means "an act or instance of showing.” Websters Third New International Dictionary 796 (1968). The definition of "invite” includes "to provide opportunity or occasion for: increase the likelihood of: open the way to.” Id. at 1190. By filming his daughter’s genitals for his later viewing and sexual stimulation, Myers caused, or at least invited, his daughter’s "exhibition.” This court said in State v. Bohannon, 62 Wn. App. 462, 472, 814 P.2d 694 (1991) that "an individual could take sexually explicit photographs of a child at a time when the child was unaware that the pictures were being taken. Under those circumstances, the photographer could still be found guilty of sexual exploitation of a minor . . . if he were to use . . . the photographs 'for the purpose of sexual stimulation of the viewer.’ ”
Review granted at 130 Wn.2d 1016 (1996).