2022 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 53a - Penal Code
Chapter 952 - Penal Code: Offenses
Section 53a-196a. - Employing a minor in an obscene performance: Class A felony.
(a) A person is guilty of employing a minor in an obscene performance when such person (1) employs any minor, whether or not such minor receives any consideration, for the purpose of promoting any material or performance which is obscene as to minors, notwithstanding that such material or performance is intended for an adult audience, or (2) permits any such minor to be employed, whether or not such minor receives any consideration, in the promotion of any material or performance which is obscene as to minors, notwithstanding that such material or performance is intended for an adult audience, and such person is the parent or guardian of such minor or otherwise responsible for the general supervision of such minor's welfare.
(b) Employing a minor in an obscene performance is a class A felony and any person found guilty under this section shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of which ten years of the sentence imposed may not be suspended or reduced by the court.
(P.A. 77-577, S. 2; P.A. 78-345, S. 2, 4; P.A. 85-496, S. 2; P.A. 92-260, S. 79; P.A. 07-143, S. 6.)
History: P.A. 78-345 restated provisions for conformity with Sec. 53a-193 as amended; P.A. 85-496 increased penalty from class B felony to class A felony; P.A. 92-260 made technical changes; P.A. 07-143 amended Subsec. (a) to make technical changes and amended Subsec. (b) to require any person found guilty to be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of which 10 years of the sentence imposed may not be suspended or reduced by the court, effective July 1, 2007.
See Sec. 17a-47 re legal division within Department of Children and Families.
Cited. 227 C. 207.
“Audience”, in Subsec. (a)(1), may consist of a single photographer of a live performance or a single person viewing photographs of the performance, whether or not any spectator was present at performance or depicted in photographs; Subsec. (a)(1) advances legislative purpose of prohibiting the exhibition and viewing of children engaged in sexual conduct, regardless of the number of spectators. 135 CA 215.
