§86. Enticing persons into prostitution
A. Enticing persons into prostitution is committed when any person over the age of
seventeen entices, places, persuades, encourages, or causes the entrance of any other person
under the age of twenty-one into the practice of prostitution, either by force, threats,
promises, or by any other device or scheme. Lack of knowledge of the other person's age
shall not be a defense.
B.(1) Whoever commits the crime of enticing persons into prostitution shall be
imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not less than two years nor more than ten years.
(2) Whoever commits the crime of enticing persons into prostitution when the person
being enticed into prostitution is under the age of eighteen years shall be fined not more than
fifty thousand dollars, imprisoned at hard labor for not less than fifteen years nor more than
fifty years, or both, with at least five years being served without benefit of probation, parole,
or suspension of sentence.
(3) Whoever commits the crime of enticing persons into prostitution when the person
being enticed into prostitution is under the age of fourteen years shall be fined not more than
seventy-five thousand dollars, imprisoned at hard labor for not less than twenty-five years
nor more than fifty years, or both, with at least ten years being served without benefit of
probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.
C.(1) It shall not be a defense to prosecution for a violation of this Section that the
person being enticed is actually a law enforcement officer or peace officer acting in his
official capacity.
(2) It shall not be a defense to prosecution for a violation of this Section that the
person being enticed consented to the activity.
Amended by Acts 1978, No. 434, §1; Acts 2010, No. 763, §1; Acts 2012, No. 446,
§1; Acts 2013, No. 83, §1; Acts 2014, No. 564, §1; Acts 2017, No. 180, §1, eff. June 12,
2017; Acts 2020, No. 352, §2; Acts 2025, No. 230, §1.