There are several types of activities that can result in a dealing in child pornography charge. If a person knowingly publishes or makes child pornography available for any form of public distribution or sale, they could be charged with dealing child pornography. If someone knowingly mails, ships, or transmits any type of pornography that depicts a child performing a prohibited sex act or in the simulation of this type of act that also counts as distribution.
Lastly, if a person knowingly advertises, describes, distributes, presents promotes, or transmits any visual depiction, display, exhibition, or performance with the intent to create the impression that this object contains a depiction of a child that is engaging in either a prohibited sex or the simulation of a sex act that constitutes a child pornography offense. It is also a crime to be involved in employing or soliciting a minor to produce any visual representation that shows the minor engaged in any type of sexual act.