Any person who intentionally gives, transports, provides, or makes available, or who offers to give, transport, provide, or make available to another person, a child under the age of 16 for the purpose of any lewd or lascivious act as defined in Section 288, or who causes, induces, or persuades a child under the age of 16 to engage in such an act with another person, is guilty of a felony and shall be imprisoned in the state prison for a term of three, six, or eight years, and by a fine not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).
Cal. Penal Code § 266j
Rape, Abduction, Carnal Abuse of Children, and Seduction
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case 25 Cal. App. 4th 222 - Debbie Reynolds Professional Rehearsal Studios v. Superior Court (1994)
Most recently applied in A.M. v. Ventura Unified School Dist. (October 2016)
Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch. 1068, Sec. 1.
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