2013 Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 13 - Criminal Code
§ 13-3553 Sexual exploitation of a minor; evidence; classification


AZ Rev Stat § 13-3553 (through 1st Reg Sess 51st Leg. 2013) What's This?

13-3553. Sexual exploitation of a minor; evidence; classification

A. A person commits sexual exploitation of a minor by knowingly:

1. Recording, filming, photographing, developing or duplicating any visual depiction in which a minor is engaged in exploitive exhibition or other sexual conduct.

2. Distributing, transporting, exhibiting, receiving, selling, purchasing, electronically transmitting, possessing or exchanging any visual depiction in which a minor is engaged in exploitive exhibition or other sexual conduct.

B. If any visual depiction of sexual exploitation of a minor is admitted into evidence, the court shall seal that evidence at the conclusion of any grand jury proceeding, hearing or trial.

C. Sexual exploitation of a minor is a class 2 felony and if the minor is under fifteen years of age it is punishable pursuant to section 13-705.

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