Commercial Sexual Abuse of a Minor (CSAM), is a felony sex crime. The allegation is that you offered to pay a minor for some sort of sexual act. In a sting operation such as this, it is actually charged as an attempted crime. This is for two reasons. First, there is no actual minor, rather only an undercover cop pretending to be one. Second, if you were caught up in a sting, then you were arrested before any completed crime could have occurred anyway.