Prosecuting Cyber-Pedophiles: How Can Intent Be Shown in a Virtual World in Light of the Fantasy Defense?
Donald S. Yamagami · Santa Clara Law Digital Commons (Santa Clara University) · 2000
Late one night, thirty-four-year-old Patrick Naughton, a former Infoseek executive, walked along the Santa Monica Pier to meet "KRISLA." ' KRISLA was the handle 2 of a supposed thirteen-year-old girl with whom he had a sexual correspondence for over nine months.3 The five-foot, blonde haired girl waited on the pier near the roller coaster, carrying a green backpack as instructed by Naughton.4 Naughton had written to her about love and sex and that he "wanted to get[her] alone in his hotel room and have [her] strip naked for him."5 However, the married Naughton, who had traveled from Seattle, alleged that he had no intention of having sex with KRISLA and that he did not even believe she was who she said she was.7 Naughton was correct in that this was all just