Legal Question in Criminal Law in Pennsylvania

Re: naked pictures

18 Pa.C.S. � 2709 (2006)

� 2709. Harassment

(a) OFFENSE DEFINED.-- A person commits the crime of harassment when, with intent to harass, annoy or alarm another, the person:

(1) strikes, shoves, kicks or otherwise subjects the other person to

physical contact, or attempts or threatens to do the same;

(2) follows the other person in or about a public place or places;

(3) engages in a course of conduct or repeatedly commits acts which

serve no legitimate purpose;

(4) communicates to or about such other person any lewd, lascivious,

threatening or obscene words, language, drawings or caricatures;

(5) communicates repeatedly in an anonymous manner;

(6) communicates repeatedly at extremely inconvenient hours; or

(7) communicates repeatedly in a manner other than specified in

paragraphs (4), (5) and (6).

(b) Deleted by 2002, Dec. 9, P.L. 1759, No. 218, � 1, effective in 60 days.

(B.1) VENUE.--

(1) An offense committed under this section may be deemed to have been

committed at either the place at which the communication or

communications were made or at the place where the communication or

communications were received.

(2) Acts indicating a course of conduct which occur in more than one

jurisdiction may be used by any other jurisdiction in which an act

occurred as evidence of a continuing pattern of conduct or a course of

conduct.

(c) GRADING.--

(1) An offense under subsection (a)(1), (2) or (3) shall constitute a

summary offense.

(2) (i) An offense under subsection (a)(4), (5), (6) or (7) shall

constitute a misdemeanor of the third degree.