---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3299"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3299"
heading: "Child abduction and sex offenses"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3299"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 213 — Limitations"
---

# §3299. Child abduction and sex offenses


Notwithstanding any other law, an indictment may be found or an information instituted at any time without limitation for any [offense](/usc/18/3156.md?p=a-2) under [section 1201](/usc/18/1201.md) involving a minor victim, and for any [felony](/usc/18/3156.md?p=a-3) under chapter [109A](/usc/18/chptI/ch109A.md), [110](/usc/18/chptI/ch110.md) (except for section[^1] 2257 and 2257A), or 117, or section 1591.


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “sections”.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 109–248, title II, § 211(1), July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 616.)