§ 11-67-6 - Sex trafficking of a minor.
SECTION 11-67-6
§ 11-67-6 Sex trafficking of a minor.– (a) Definitions. As used in this section:
(1) "Commercial sex act" means any sex act or sexuallyexplicit performance on account of which anything of value is given, promisedto, or received, directly or indirectly, by any person.
(2) "Minor" refers to any natural person under eighteen (18)years of age.
(3) "Person" includes an individual, corporation,partnership, association, a government body, a municipal corporation, or anyother legal entity.
(4) "Sex act" means sexual intercourse, cunnilingus,fellatio, anal intercourse, and digital intrusion or intrusion by any objectinto the genital opening or anal opening of another person's body or thestimulation by hand of another's genitals for the purposes of arousing orgratifying the sexual desire of either person.
(5) "Sexually-explicit performance" means an act or show,intended to arouse, satisfy the sexual desires of, or appeal to the prurientinterests of patrons or viewers, whether public or private, live, photographed,recorded, or videotaped.
(b) Any person who:
(1) Recruits, employs, entices, solicits, isolates, harbors,transports, provides, persuades, obtains, or maintains, or so attempts, anyminor for the purposes of commercial sex acts; or
(2) Sells or purchases a minor for the purposes of commercialsex acts; or
(3) Benefits, financially or by receiving anything of value,from participation in a venture which has engaged in an act described insubdivision (1) or (2); or
(c) Every person who shall commit sex trafficking of a minor,shall be guilty of a felony and subject to not more than forty (40) yearsimprisonment or a fine of up to forty thousand dollars ($40,000), or both.
(d) Obstructs, or attempts to obstruct, or in any wayinterferes with or prevents the enforcement of this section shall be guilty ofa felony and subject to not more than twenty (20) years imprisonment, or a fineof up to twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), or both.
(e) In a prosecution under this section, the government neednot prove that the defendant knew the victim's age.