CA · jury_instructions
CALCRIM No. 1125
Arranging Meeting With Minor for Lewd Purpose (Pen.
Code, § 288.4(a)(1))
The defendant is charged [in Count] with arranging a meeting
with a minor for a lewd purpose [while having a prior conviction] [in
violation of Penal Code section 288.4(a)(1)].
To prove that the defendant is guilty of this crime, the People must
prove that:
1. The defendant arranged a meeting with (a minor / [or] a person
(he/she) believed to be a minor);
2. When the defendant did so, (he/she) was motivated by an
unnatural or abnormal sexual interest in children;
[AND]
3. At that meeting, the defendant intended to (expose (his/her)
genitals or pubic or rectal area/ [or] have the minor expose (his/
her) genitals or pubic or rectal area/ [or] engage in lewd or
lascivious behavior).
A minor is a person under the age of 18.
[Under the law, a person becomes one year older as soon as the first
minute of his or her birthday has begun.]
[Lewd and lascivious behavior includes any touching of a person with the
intent to sexually arouse the perpetrator or the other person. Lewd or
lascivious behavior includes touching any part of the person’s body,
either on the bare skin or through the clothes the person is wearing. [A
lewd or lascivious act includes causing someone to touch his or her own
body or someone else’s body at the instigation of the perpetrator who
has the required intent.]]
New August 2009; Revised April 2010, February 2013, August 2016, March 2017
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- courts.ca.gov
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- 2026-08-20
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- calcrim-2019
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