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Call Now: 904-383-7448A person commits the offense of pandering by compulsion when he or she by duress or coercion causes a person to perform an act of prostitution and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than ten years.
(Code 1933, § 26-2017, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1; Ga. L. 2001, p. 92, § 5.)
- Actions for childhood sexual abuse, § 9-3-33.1.
- Ga. L. 2001, p. 92, §§ 1 and 2, not codified by the General Assembly, provide: "This Act shall be known and may be cited as the 'Child Sexual Commerce Prevention Act of 2001.' The General Assembly acknowledges that children are increasingly induced, coerced, or compelled to perform sexual acts for the financial benefit of third parties. The General Assembly enacts this law to express its abhorrence for these practices and to better protect children from sexual exploitation."
- For note on the 2001 amendment to O.C.G.A. § 16-6-14, see 18 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 32 (2001).
- Testimony of a 15-year-old girl that, when she attempted to refuse to act as defendant's prostitute, defendant threatened to kill her, clearly supported defendant's conviction for pandering by compulsion. Walker v. State, 245 Ga. App. 693, 538 S.E.2d 563 (2000).
Cited in Fluker v. State, 248 Ga. 290, 282 S.E.2d 112 (1981).
- 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Prostitution, § 17 et seq.
- 73 C.J.S., Prostitution, §§ 17, 18.
- Constitutionality and construction of pandering acts, 74 A.L.R. 311.
White Slave Traffic Act (Mann Act) as affecting constitutionality or application of state statutes dealing with prostitution, 161 A.L.R. 356.
Validity, construction, and application of state statute forbidding unfair trade practice or competition by discriminatory allowance of rebates, commissions, discounts, or the like, 41 A.L.R.4th 675.
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