Title XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS
< > Effective - 28 Aug 2011, 4 histories, see footnote (history)566.213. Until December 31, 2016 — Sexual trafficking of a child under age twelve — affirmative defense not allowed, when — penalty. — 1. A person commits the crime of sexual trafficking of a child under the age of twelve if the individual knowingly:
(1) Recruits, entices, harbors, transports, provides, or obtains by any means, including but not limited to through the use of force, abduction, coercion, fraud, deception, blackmail, or causing or threatening to cause financial harm, a person under the age of twelve to participate in a commercial sex act, a sexual performance, or the production of explicit sexual material as defined in section 573.010, or benefits, financially or by receiving anything of value, from participation in such activities; or
(2) Causes a person under the age of twelve to engage in a commercial sex act, a sexual performance, or the production of explicit sexual material as defined in section 573.010.
2. It shall not be a defense that the defendant believed that the person was twelve years of age or older.
3. Sexual trafficking of a child less than twelve years of age shall be a felony for which the authorized term of imprisonment is life imprisonment without eligibility for probation or parole until the defendant has served not less than twenty-five years of such sentence. Subsection 4 of section 558.019 shall not apply to the sentence of a person who has pleaded guilty to or been found guilty of sexual trafficking of a child less than twelve years of age, and "life imprisonment" shall mean imprisonment for the duration of a person's natural life for the purposes of this section.
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(L. 2006 H.B. 1698, et al., A.L. 2011 H.B. 214)
Transferred 2014; now 566.210; Effective 1-01-17
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