13-3212. Child prostitution; classification; increased punishment

A. A person commits child prostitution by knowingly:

1. Causing any minor to engage in prostitution.

2. Using any minor for the purposes of prostitution.

3. Permitting a minor who is under the person's custody or control to engage in prostitution.

4. Receiving any benefit for or on account of procuring or placing a minor in any place or in the charge or custody of any person for the purpose of prostitution.

5. Receiving any benefit pursuant to an agreement to participate in the proceeds of prostitution of a minor.

6. Financing, managing, supervising, controlling or owning, either alone or in association with others, prostitution activity involving a minor.

7. Transporting or financing the transportation of any minor with the intent that the minor engage in prostitution.

8. Engaging in prostitution with a minor.

B. Notwithstanding any other law, a sentence imposed on a person for a violation of this section involving a minor who is fifteen, sixteen or seventeen years of age shall be consecutive to any other sentence imposed on the person at any time.

C. If a person is convicted of a violation of subsection A, paragraph 8 of this section, the victim is fifteen, sixteen or seventeen years of age and the court sentences the person to a term of probation, the court shall order that as an initial term of probation the person be imprisoned in the county jail for not less than thirty days. This jail term of incarceration shall not be deleted, deferred or otherwise suspended and shall commence on the date of sentencing. This subsection does not apply to persons who are sentenced to serve a period of incarceration in the state department of corrections.

D. Child prostitution is a class 2 felony, and if the minor is under fifteen years of age it is punishable pursuant to section 13-705.

E. If the minor is fifteen, sixteen or seventeen years of age, child prostitution pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 of this section is a class 2 felony, the person convicted shall be sentenced pursuant to this section and the person is not eligible for suspension of sentence, probation, pardon or release from confinement on any basis except as specifically authorized by section 31-233, subsection A or B until the sentence imposed by the court has been served or commuted. The presumptive term may be aggravated or mitigated within the range under this section pursuant to section 13-701, subsections C, D and E. The terms are as follows:

1. The term for a first offense is as follows:

      Minimum                 Presumptive                Maximum
      7 years                 10.5 years                 21 years
 

2. The term for a defendant who has one historical prior felony conviction is as follows:

      Minimum                 Presumptive                Maximum
      14 years                15.75 years                28 years
 

3. The term for a defendant who has two or more historical prior felony convictions is as follows:

      Minimum                 Presumptive                Maximum
      21 years                28 years                   35 years