2006 Louisiana Laws - RS 14:86 — Enticing persons into prostitution

§86.  Enticing persons into prostitution

Enticing persons into prostitution is committed when any person over the age of seventeen entices, places, persuades, encourages, or causes the entrance of any other person under the age of twenty-one into the practice of prostitution, either by force, threats, promises, or by any other device or scheme.  Lack of knowledge of the other person's age shall not be a defense.  

Whoever commits the crime of enticing persons into prostitution shall be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not less than two years nor more than ten years.  

Amended by Acts 1978, No. 434, §1.  

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