Section 1088 - Child under 18 years of age - Inducing, keeping, detaining or restraining for prostitution - PunishmentA. No person shall:1. By promise, threats, violence, or by any device or scheme, including but not limited to the use of any controlled dangerous substance prohibited pursuant to the provisions of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act, cause, induce, persuade, or encourage a child under eighteen (18) years of age to engage or continue to engage in child sex trafficking or to become or remain an inmate of a house of prostitution or other place where prostitution is practiced;2. Keep, hold, detain, restrain, or compel against his or her will any child under eighteen (18) years of age to engage in the practice of child sex trafficking or in a house of prostitution or other place where child sex trafficking is practiced or allowed; or3. Directly or indirectly keep, hold, detain, restrain, or compel or attempt to keep, hold, detain, restrain, or compel a child under eighteen (18) years of age to engage in the practice of child sex trafficking or in a house of prostitution or any place where prostitution is practiced or allowed for the purpose of compelling such child to directly or indirectly pay, liquidate, or cancel any debt, dues, or obligations incurred, or said to have been incurred, by such child.B.1. Any person violating the provisions of this section other than paragraph 2 of this subsection, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for not less than one (1) year nor more than twenty-five (25) years, and by a fine of not less than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) nor more than Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00).2. Any owner, proprietor, keeper, manager, conductor, or other person who knowingly permits a violation of this section in any house, building, room, tent, lot or premises under his or her control or of which he or she has possession, upon conviction for the first offense, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not less than six (6) months nor more than one (1) year, and by a fine of not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00). Upon conviction for a subsequent offense pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph, such person shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for a period of not less than one (1) year nor more than ten (10) years, and by a fine of not less than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) nor more than Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00).C. Except for persons sentenced to life or life without parole, any person sentenced to imprisonment for two (2) years or more for a violation of this section shall be required to serve a term of post-imprisonment supervision pursuant to subparagraph f of paragraph 1 of subsection A of Section 991a of Title 22 of the Oklahoma Statutes under conditions determined by the Department of Corrections. The jury shall be advised that the mandatory post-imprisonment supervision shall be in addition to the actual imprisonment.Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 1088
Amended by Laws 2024 , c. 151, s. 7, eff. 11/1/2024.Added by Laws 1985, HB 1261, c. 55, § 2, eff. 11/1/1985; Amended by Laws 1997, HB 1213, c. 133, § 290; Amended by Laws 1999, 1st Extr. Sess., HB 1009, c. 5, §192, emerg. eff. 7/1/1999; Amended by Laws 2007 , HB 1760, c. 261, § 16, eff. 11/1/2007.