573.025. Promoting child pornography in the first degree. - Missouri Statutes

Promoting child pornography in the first degree.

573.025. 1. A person commits the crime of promoting childpornography in the first degree if such person possesses with the intent topromote or promotes child pornography of a child less than fourteen yearsof age or obscene material portraying what appears to be a child less thanfourteen years of age.

2. Promoting child pornography in the first degree is a class Bfelony unless the person knowingly promotes such material to a minor, inwhich case it is a class A felony. No person who pleads guilty to or isfound guilty of, or is convicted of, promoting child pornography in thefirst degree shall be eligible for probation, parole, or conditionalrelease for a period of three calendar years.

3. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a providerof electronic communication services or remote computing services tomonitor any user, subscriber or customer of the provider, or the content ofany communication of any user, subscriber or customer of the provider.

(L. 1985 H.B. 366, et al., A.L. 2000 S.B. 757 & 602, A.L. 2008 S.B. 714, et al., A.L. 2009 H.B. 62)