573.205. Promoting sexual performance by a child — penalties.
It’s a felony to promote or help create a sexual performance involving a child.
This law makes it a crime to promote, produce, or direct any performance involving sexual acts by someone under 18 years old. It applies even if the person isn’t physically in the performance but helps make it happen.
1. A person commits promoting sexual performance by a child if they knowingly:
- Promote a performance involving sexual acts by a child under 18; or
- Produce or direct a performance that includes sexual conduct by a child under 18.
2. This offense is a class C felony.
3. If the person has previously been convicted of this crime, the court may not give them a suspended sentence.
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