[ty6853]

Cody wilson was convicted in Texas after an age verification online service verified a sugar daddy escort was 18. The ID turned out to be fake, he was arrested, charged, and found guilty although I think he got 10 years probation with some sort of arrangement to expunge the offense if he completes probation.

IIRC the state of Texas was pushing for much worse, but basically the 'victim' was going to end up getting dragged through the mud and probably be forced to admit to all sorts of fraud and felonies involved in forgery, fraud secondary to forgery, and whatever other crimes are involved when you engage in crime with falsified government ID etc so they settled to avoid her having to testify.

[Zak]

Texas appears to have strict liability for that specific offense, which differs from how its porn age verification law is structured, and also differs from equivalent offenses in some other states.