18-5609. INDUCING PERSON UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE INTO PROSTITUTION — PENALTIES. Every person who induces or attempts to induce a person under the age of eighteen (18) years to engage in prostitution shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a period of not less than two (2) years, which may be extended to life imprisonment, or by a fine not exceeding fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), or by both such fine and imprisonment.
History:
[18-5609, added 1972, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 953; am. 1981, ch. 324, sec. 9, p. 675; am. 1994, ch. 130, sec. 9, p. 295.]