567.060. Promoting prostitution in the second degree. - Missouri Statutes

Promoting prostitution in the second degree.

567.060. 1. A person commits the crime of promotingprostitution in the second degree if he knowingly promotesprostitution by managing, supervising, controlling or owning,either alone or in association with others, a house ofprostitution or a prostitution business or enterprise involvingprostitution activity by two or more prostitutes.

2. Promoting prostitution in the second degree is a class Cfelony.

(L. 1977 S.B. 60)

Effective 1-1-79

(1984) Defendant cannot be charged with promoting her own prostitution where defendant was acting as a prostitute herself and the definition of promoting prostitution excludes one who is also acting as a prostitute. State v. Fredrickson (Mo.App.), 689 S.W.2d 58.