Sec. 53a-196c. Importing child pornography: Class B felony. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 53a-196c. Importing child pornography: Class B felony. (a) A person is guilty of importing child pornography when, with intent to promote child pornography, such person knowingly imports or causes to be imported into the state three or more visual depictions of child pornography of known content and character.

      (b) Importing child pornography is a class B felony and any person found guilty under this section shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of which five years of the sentence imposed may not be suspended or reduced by the court.

      (P.A. 85-496, S. 5; P.A. 04-139, S. 3; P.A. 07-143, S. 7.)

      History: P.A. 04-139 amended Subsec. (a) to replace "any child pornography" with "three or more visual depictions of child pornography" and make a technical change for purposes of gender neutrality, deleted former Subsec. (b) providing that importation of two or more copies of any publication containing child pornography shall be prima facie evidence that such publications were imported with intent to promote child pornography, redesignated existing Subsec. (c) as new Subsec. (b) and amended said Subsec. to increase penalty from a class C felony to a class B felony; P.A. 07-143 amended Subsec. (b) to require any person found guilty to be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of which 5 years of the sentence imposed may not be suspended or reduced by the court, effective July 1, 2007.