FIRST REGULAR SESSION
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES CRAWFORD AND REINHART (Co-sponsors).
Pre-filed January 7, 2003, and copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 568, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to selling a child, with a penalty provision.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 568, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 568.176, to read as follows:
568.176. 1. Any person who sells or attempts to sell any person less than eighteen years of age to another or receives money or anything of value in consideration of placing any person less than eighteen years of age in the custody or under the power or control of another, or who buys or attempts to buy any person less than eighteen years of age, or pays money or delivers anything of value to another in consideration of having any person less than eighteen years of age placed in his or her custody or under his or her power or control is guilty of a class B felony.
2. The provisions of this section shall not apply to legitimate adoptions or to legitimate actions by department of corrections officials or county jailers.