Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 13A-6-69 (2026)
Enticing Child to Enter Vehicle, House, Etc., for Immoral Purposes.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person with lascivious intent to entice, allure, persuade, or invite, or attempt to entice, allure, persuade, or invite, any child under 16 years of age to enter any vehicle, room, house, office, or other place for the purpose of proposing to such child the performance of an act of sexual intercourse or an act which constitutes the offense of sodomy or for the purpose of proposing the fondling or feeling of the sexual or genital parts of such child or the breast of such child, or for the purpose of committing an aggravated assault on such child, or for the purpose of proposing that such child fondle or feel the sexual or genital parts of such person.
(b) A violation of this section is a Class C felony.
(Acts 1967, No. 388, p. 976; Code 1975, §13-1-114; Act 2005-301, 1st Sp. Sess., §1.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 26
cases (3 in the last 5 years), 1988–2024 · leading case: Bryan Pettibone v. State of Alabama., 91 So. 3d 94 (Ala. Crim. App. 2011).
Bryan Pettibone v. State of Alabama., 91 So. 3d 94 (Ala. Crim. App. 2011). “Bryan Pettibone was convicted of four counts of enticing a child for immoral pur *98 poses, violations of § 13A-6-69, Ala.Code 1975; three counts of second-degree sexual abuse, violations of § ISA-6-67, Ala.”
Tedder v. State, 547 So. 2d 601 (Ala. 1989). “Robert Tedder was convicted on three counts of enticemént, in violation of Ala. Code 1975, § 13A-6-69, and on one count of first degree sodomy, in violation of Ala.”
Goff v. State, 572 So. 2d 1283 (Ala. Crim. App. 1990). “As the State points out, the appellant's requested charge on enticing a child was properly refused, because it contained a misspelled word ("lascinious," rather than "lascivious" as used in the statute, § 13A-6-69, Code of Alabama 1975). See Ex parte Wilhite, 485 So.”
Sanders v. State, 986 So. 2d 1230 (Ala. Crim. App. 2007). “The appellant, Kenneth Wayne Sanders, was convicted of enticing a child for immoral purposes, a violation of § 13A-6-69, Ala.Code 1975, and sexual abuse in the first degree, a violation of § 13A-6-66, Ala.”
Barney v. State, 42 So. 3d 170 (Ala. Crim. App. 2009). “Section 13A-6-110, which defines the crime of child solicitation by computer, states: “(a) In addition to the provisions of Section 13A-6-69 [ 1 ], a person is guilty of solicitation of a child by a computer if the person is 19 years of age or older and the person knowingly,…”
Pruitt v. State, 272 So. 3d 732 (Ala. Crim. App. 2018). “…degree); § 13A-6-66(a)(3) (sexual abuse in the first degree); § 13A-6-67(a)(2) (sexual abuse in the second degree); § 13A-6-69 (enticing child to enter vehicle, house, etc., for immoral purposes); § 13A-6-70(c)(1) (providing that a person is deemed incapable of consent to…”
Tedder v. State, 547 So. 2d 599 (Ala. Crim. App. 1988). “” Ala.Code § 13A-6-69 (1975). There is no evidence that the appellant proposed any of the acts listed in this part of the statute in question.”
Eaton v. State, 759 So. 2d 562 (Ala. Crim. App. 1999). “The appellant, James Eaton, was convicted by a jury of enticing a child for immoral purposes, a violation of § 13A-6-69, Ala.Code 1975. He was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment.”
Jones v. State, 615 So. 2d 1293 (Ala. Crim. App. 1993). “§ 13A-6-69, Code of AlabamaVYVó. The offense of kidnapping in the first degree, however, requires no such enticement, but rather an abduction with intent to inflict physical injury, or sexually violate or abuse the vie- *1297 tim.”
Morgan v. State, 641 So. 2d 834 (Ala. Crim. App. 1992). “The appellant was indicted on three counts of enticement, in violation of § 13A-6-69, Code of Alabama 1975, one count of kidnap *835 ping in the second degree, in violation of § 13A-6-44, Code of Alabama 1975, and one count of possession of obscene material, in violation of §…”
B.H. v. State, 941 So. 2d 345 (Ala. Crim. App. 2006). “was charged in separate delinquency petitions with enticing a child, a violation of § 13A-6-69, Ala.Code 1975, and first-degree sodomy, a violation of § 13A-6-63, Ala.”
State v. Robbins, 559 N.W.2d 789 (Neb. Ct. App. 1997). “See, generally, Ala. Code § 13A-6-69 (Michie 1994); Colo.”
— Ala. Code § 13A-6-69(a) — 2 cases
Bryan Pettibone v. State of Alabama., 91 So. 3d 94 (Ala. Crim. App. 2011). “Bryan Pettibone was convicted of four counts of enticing a child for immoral pur *98 poses, violations of § 13A-6-69, Ala.Code 1975; three counts of second-degree sexual abuse, violations of § ISA-6-67, Ala.”
Travis Eugene Wolfe v. State of Alabama (Appeal from DeKalb Circuit Court: CC-22-1154 & CC-23-242) (Ala. Crim. App. 2024).
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