Montana Code Annotated 2014

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     45-5-310. Sexual servitude of child. (1) A person commits the offense of sexual servitude of a child if the person purposely or knowingly:
     (a) recruits, entices, solicits, isolates, harbors, transports, provides, obtains, or maintains through any means a child for the performance of commercial sexual activity; or
     (b) benefits, financially or by receiving anything of value, from participation in a venture that has engaged in the offense of sexual servitude of a child.
     (2) (a) A person convicted of the offense of sexual servitude of a child, whether or not the person is aware of the child's age:
     (i) shall be punished by imprisonment in a state prison for a term of 100 years. The court may not suspend execution or defer imposition of the first 25 years of a sentence of imprisonment imposed under this subsection (2)(a)(i) except as provided in 46-18-222, and during the first 25 years of imprisonment, the person is not eligible for parole.
     (ii) may be fined an amount not to exceed $50,000; and
     (iii) shall be ordered to enroll in and successfully complete the educational phase and the cognitive and behavioral phase of a sexual offender treatment program provided or approved by the department of corrections.
     (b) If the person is released after the mandatory minimum period of imprisonment, the person is subject to supervision by the department of corrections for the remainder of the person's life and shall participate in the program for continuous, satellite-based monitoring provided for in 46-23-1010.

     History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 374, L. 2013.

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