The Arizona Supreme Court has agreed to review a lower court’s decision ruling the crime of solicitation to commit child molestation doesn't require an actual victim.
The justices agreed earlier this week to consider a Court of Appeals ruling that said a man's convictions were properly classified as dangerous crimes against children and that no actual child victim is needed under the solicitation statute.
The case involves a now 62-year-old man who had pleaded guilty in a 1992 case.
The man was accused of soliciting a postal inspector to engage in sexual conduct with her two fictitious children who were supposedly under age 13.