Section 566.210

There are multiple enactments of 566.210

Title XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS

Chapter 566

Effective - 01 Jan 2028, 4 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.

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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, A.L. 2026 S.B. 888, A.L. 2026 H.B. 2637 & 3155)

Effective 1-01-28, see § 1.901

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

Revisor’s note: This section was amended by both S.B. 888 and H.B. 2637 & 3155, 2026. H.B. 2637 & 3155 repealed the version amended by S.B. 888 effective 8-28-26 and amended this section effective 1-01-28.

Severability clause, see § 1.1005

CROSS REFERENCE:

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