Section 566.210

There are multiple enactments of 566.210

Title XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS

Chapter 566

Effective - 28 Aug 2025, 3 histories, see footnote   

  566.210.  Sexual trafficking of a child, first degree, penalty. — 1.  A person commits the offense of sexual trafficking of a child in the first degree if he or she 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 fourteen 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;

  (2)  Causes a person under the age of fourteen to engage in a commercial sex act, a sexual performance, or the production of explicit sexual material as defined in section 573.010; or

  (3)  Advertises the availability of a person under the age of fourteen to participate 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 fourteen years of age or older.

  3.  The offense of sexual trafficking of a child in the first degree is a felony for which the authorized term of imprisonment is life imprisonment without eligibility for probation or parole until the offender has served not less than thirty years of such sentence.  Subsection 4 of section 558.019 shall not apply to the sentence of a person who has been found guilty of sexual trafficking of a child less than fourteen 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, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491, A.L. 2016 H.B. 1562, A.L. 2025 H.B. 495)

Transferred 2014; formerly 566.213; Effective 1-01-17

Severability clause, see § 1.1001

CROSS REFERENCE:

Child sexual abuse, action for civil damages may be brought, when, 537.046