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Case 22-1426, Document 79, 06/29/2023, 3536060, Page5/ of 93 44 or coercion of a child to engage in, or as- sist another person to engage in, sexually explicit conduct or the rape, molestation, prostitution, or other form of sexual ex- ploitation of children, or incest with chil- dren. 18 U.S.C. § 3509(a)(8). The term “sexually explicit con- duct” is in turn defined to mean, among other things, “sexual intercourse, including sexual contact”; and the term “sexual contact” means “the intentional touching, either directly or through clothing, of the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks of any per- son with an intent to abuse, humiliate, harass, de- grade, or arouse or gratify sexual desire of any person.” Id. § 3509(a)(9)(A). Courts have looked to the defini- tion of “sexual abuse” set forth in Section 3509(a) to determine whether the statute of limitations of Section 3283 applies to an offense. United States v. Carpenter, 680 F.3d 1101, 1103-04 (9th Cir. 2012) (‘We join our sister circuits in looking to subsection 3509(a) for a def- inition of ‘sexual abuse’ under federal law, and find it the appropriate definition to use in applying section 3283's extended statute of limitations.”). The definition of “sexual abuse” includes not only actual “sexual contact,” but also the “the employment, use, persuasion, inducement, enticement, or coercion of a child to engage in, or assist another person to en- gage in,” sexual contact. 18 U.S.C. § 3509(a). The breadth of this definition is underscored by Congress’s use of the word “includes” in Section 3509(a)’s text, which is “significant because it makes clear that the examples enumerated in the text are intended to be DOJ-OGR-00021704