Current through 2024 Session Acts Chapter 111 and 2024 Special Session Acts Chapter 4
Section 21-5515 - Sexual extortion(a) Sexual extortion is communicating by any means a threat to injure the property or reputation of a person, commit violence against a person, or distribute an image, video or other recording of a person that is of a sexual nature or depicts such person in a state of nudity:(1) With the intent to coerce such person to: (A) Engage in sexual contact, sexual intercourse or conduct that is of a sexual nature; or (B) produce, provide or distribute an image, video or other recording of a person in a state of nudity or engaging in conduct that is of a sexual nature; or(2) that causes such person to: (A) Engage in sexual contact, sexual intercourse or conduct that is of a sexual nature; or(B) produce, provide or distribute an image, video or other recording of a person in a state of nudity or engaging in conduct that is of a sexual nature.(b) Sexual extortion as defined in: (1) Subsection (a)(1) is a severity level 7, person felony; and(2) subsection (a)(2) is a severity level 4, person felony.(c) This section shall be a part of and supplemental to the Kansas criminal code.Added by L. 2021, ch. 103,§ 1, eff. 7/1/2021.