CALCRIM No. 1126

§ 288.4(b))

The defendant is charged [in Count] with going to a meeting

with a minor for a lewd purpose [in violation of Penal Code section

288.4(b)].

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;

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);

AND

4. The defendant went to the arranged meeting place at or about

the arranged time.

<Give the bracketed language at the beginning of the following sentence if

instructing on other offenses mentioning children for which the definition

given here does not apply.>

[For the purposes of this instruction,] (A/a) child or 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