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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Wilkinson finds the Board properly denied the Venezuelan's petition for relief from deportation. The Venezuelan argued his attempts to meet a 14-year-old for sex, which led to attempted sexual battery and electronic solicitation of minor convictions, are not crimes involving moral turpitude. He argued that attempted sexual battery was not a crime involving moral turpitude as the minimum conduct to sustain a conviction was insufficiently reprehensible. And he claimed that the electronic solicitation statute lacked the requisite culpable mens rea to be a crime involving moral turpitude. Statutes that limit convictions to defendants who knew or had reason to believe that their intentional sexual acts were directed at children categorically involve moral turpitude. Denied.