Restraining Orders

For the purpose of getting a personal safety order, the abuser would have to commit or attempt to commit one of following sexual offenses:

• indecent exposure;
• incest;
• distribution and display to minor of obscene matter;
• use of obscene matter with intent to seduce minor;
• employment or use of minor to produce obscene matter or assist in doing sexually explicit conduct;
• sexual assault in the first degree;
• sexual assault in the second degree;
• sexual assault in the third degree;
• sexual abuse in the first degree;
• sexual abuse in the second degree;
• sexual abuse in the third degree;
• use of minors in filming sexually explicit conduct prohibited;
• distribution and exhibiting of material depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct prohibited;
• female genital mutilation;
• sexual abuse by a parent, guardian, custodian or person in a position of trust to a child; parent, guardian, custodian or person in a position of trust allowing sexual abuse to be inflicted upon a child; displaying of sex organs by a parent, guardian, or custodian;
• sending, distributing, exhibiting, possessing, displaying or transporting material by a parent, guardian or custodian depicting a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct.¹

¹ W. Va. Code §§ 53-8-1; 53-8-4(a)(1)