2019 US Virgin Islands Code
Title 14 - Crimes
Chapter 51 - Indecency
§ 1027. Employment of minor to perform prohibited acts
(a) Every person who (i) with knowledge that a person is a minor, or (ii) while in possession of such facts that he should reasonably know that such person is a minor, or (iii) any parent or guardian who has a minor under his or her control, knowingly permits, promotes, employs, uses, persuades, induces, or coerces such minor to engage in or assist others to engage in either posing or modeling alone or with others for purposes of preparing a film, photograph, negative, slide, or live performance involving sexual conduct by a minor, alone or with other persons or animals, for commercial purposes, is guilty of a felony and shall be fined not less than $50,000 and be imprisoned for not less than three years and not more than six years.
(b) As used in subsection (a) of this section, “sexual conduct” means any of the following, whether actual or simulated: sexual intercourse, oral copulation, sodomy, anal-oral copulation, masturbation, bestiality, sexual sadism, sexual masochism, any lewd or lascivious sexual activity, or excretory functions performed in a lewd or lascivious manner, whether or not any of the above conduct is performed alone or between members of the same or opposite sex or between humans and animals. An act is simulated when it gives the appearance of being actual sexual conduct.
