573.035. Promoting child pornography in the second degree. - Missouri Statutes

Promoting child pornography in the second degree.

573.035. 1. A person commits the crime of promoting childpornography in the second degree if such person possesses with the intentto promote or promotes child pornography of a minor under the age ofeighteen or obscene material portraying what appears to be a minor underthe age of eighteen.

2. Promoting child pornography in the second degree is a class Cfelony unless the person knowingly promotes such material to a minor, inwhich case it is a class B felony. No person who is found guilty of,pleads guilty to, or is convicted of promoting child pornography in thesecond degree shall be eligible for probation.

(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)