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What is the legal definition of sexual exploitation?

This section defines sexual exploitation of a minor child for the purposes of getting a restraining order in family court.

Sexual exploitation is when a person:

  • buys or sells a child for sex; or
  • encourages, helps, or pressures a child to take part in a commercial sex act or sexually explicit performance.1

This includes recruiting, hiring, luring, offering money (soliciting), isolating, hiding, transporting, providing, persuading, getting, or keeping the child to get him/her to take part in the sex act or performance.1

1 R.I. Gen. Laws § 15-15-1(8)(i)

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