(a) It is unlawful for any person intentionally or willfully to use a computer on-line service or Internet service, including a local bulletin board service, Internet chat room, e-mail, or on-line messaging service to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice, or attempt to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice a minor or another person believed by such person to be a minor, to commit any illegal act described in sections 488, 489 and 490 of this chapter or to engage in any conduct that by its nature is an unlawful sexual offense against a minor.
(b) A person commits the offense of obscene Internet contact with a minor if the person has contact with someone the person knows to be a minor or with someone the person believes to be a minor via a computer on-line service or Internet service, including a local bulletin board service, Internet chat room, e-mail, or on-line messaging service, and the contact involves any matter containing explicit verbal descriptions or narrative accounts of sexually explicit nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sadomasochistic abuse that is intended to arouse or satisfy the sexual desire of either the minor or the person, except that no conviction may be had for a violation of this subsection on the unsupported testimony of a minor.
(c)
(1) It is unlawful for any owner or operator of a computer on-line service, Internet service, or local bulletin board service intentionally or willfully to permit a subscriber to use the service to commit a violation of this section, knowing that the person intended to use the service to violate this section. No owner or operator of a public computer on-line service, internet service, or local bulletin board service may be held liable on account of any action taken in good faith in providing the aforementioned services.
(2) Any person who violates paragraph (1) of this subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(3) The sole fact that an undercover operative or law enforcement officer was involved in the detection and investigation of an offense under this chapter does not constitute a defense to prosecution under this section.
(4) A person is subject to prosecution in the Virgin Islands pursuant to the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands, section 21(b) relating to jurisdiction over crimes and persons charged with commission of crimes generally, for any conduct made unlawful by this section which the person engages in while either within or outside of the Virgin Islands if, by such conduct, the person commits a violation of this section which involves a minor who resides in the Virgin Islands or another person believed by such person to be a minor residing in the Virgin Islands.