Sexual extortion

1. Law
2. Arkansas Code
3. Criminal Offenses
4. Offenses Against the Person
5. Sexual Offenses
6. General Provisions
7. Sexual extortion

1. (a) A person commits the offense of sexual extortion if:

   1. (1) With the purpose to coerce another person to engage in sexual contact or sexually explicit conduct, the person communicates a threat to:

      1. (A) Damage the property or harm the reputation of the other person; or

      2. (B) Produce or distribute a recording of the other person engaged in sexually explicit conduct or depicted in a state of nudity;

   2. (2) With the purpose to produce or distribute a recording of a person in a state of nudity or engaged in sexually explicit conduct, the person communicates a threat to:

      1. (A) Damage the property or harm the reputation of the other person; or

      2. (B) Produce or distribute a recording of the other person engaged in sexually explicit conduct or depicted in a state of nudity; or

   3. (3) The person knowingly causes another person to engage in sexual contact or sexually explicit conduct or to produce or distribute a recording of a person in a state of nudity or engaged in sexually explicit conduct by communicating a threat to:

      1. (A) Damage the property or harm the reputation of the other person; or

      2. (B) Produce or distribute a recording of the other person engaged in sexually explicit conduct or depicted in a state of nudity.

2. (b) Sexual extortion is a Class B felony.

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