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1 | AN ACT concerning criminal law. | |||||||||||||||||||
2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly: | |||||||||||||||||||
4 | Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | changing Section 11-18.1 as follows: | |||||||||||||||||||
6 | (720 ILCS 5/11-18.1) (from Ch. 38, par. 11-18.1) | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 11-18.1. Patronizing a minor engaged in prostitution. | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | (a) Any person who engages in an act of sexual penetration | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | as defined in Section 11-0.1 of this Code with a person engaged | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | in prostitution who is under 18 years of age or is a person | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | with a severe or profound intellectual disability commits | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | patronizing a minor engaged in prostitution. | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | (a-5) Any person who engages in any touching or fondling, | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | with a person engaged in prostitution who either is under 18 | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | years of age or is a person with a severe or profound | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | intellectual disability, of the sex organs of one person by | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | the other person, with the intent to achieve sexual arousal or | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | gratification, commits patronizing a minor engaged in | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | prostitution. | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | (b) (Blank). It is an affirmative defense to the charge of | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | patronizing a minor engaged in prostitution that the accused | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | reasonably believed that the person was of the age of 18 years | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | or over or was not a person with a severe or profound |
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1 | intellectual disability at the time of the act giving rise to | ||||||
2 | the charge. | ||||||
3 | (c) Sentence. A person who commits patronizing a juvenile | ||||||
4 | prostitute is guilty of a Class 3 felony, unless committed | ||||||
5 | within 1,000 feet of real property comprising a school, in | ||||||
6 | which case it is a Class 2 felony. A person convicted of a | ||||||
7 | second or subsequent violation of this Section, or of any | ||||||
8 | combination of such number of convictions under this Section | ||||||
9 | and Sections 11-14 (prostitution), 11-14.1 (solicitation of a | ||||||
10 | sexual act), 11-14.3 (promoting prostitution), 11-14.4 | ||||||
11 | (promoting juvenile prostitution), 11-15 (soliciting for a | ||||||
12 | prostitute), 11-15.1 (soliciting for a juvenile prostitute), | ||||||
13 | 11-16 (pandering), 11-17 (keeping a place of prostitution), | ||||||
14 | 11-17.1 (keeping a place of juvenile prostitution), 11-18 | ||||||
15 | (patronizing a prostitute), 11-19 (pimping), 11-19.1 (juvenile | ||||||
16 | pimping or aggravated juvenile pimping), or 11-19.2 | ||||||
17 | (exploitation of a child) of this Code, is guilty of a Class 2 | ||||||
18 | felony. The fact of such conviction is not an element of the | ||||||
19 | offense and may not be disclosed to the jury during trial | ||||||
20 | unless otherwise permitted by issues properly raised during | ||||||
21 | such trial. | ||||||
22 | (Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.) |