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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 12 (2026)

Procuring person to practice, or enter a place for, prostitution; employment office procuring person

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Section 12. Whoever knowingly procures, entices, sends, or aids or abets in procuring, enticing or sending, a person to practice prostitution, or to enter as an inmate or a servant a house of ill fame or other place resorted to for prostitution, whether within or without the commonwealth, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not less than three months nor more than two years. Whoever as a proprietor or keeper of an employment agency, either personally or through an agent or employee, procures or sends a person to enter as aforesaid a house of ill fame or other place resorted to for prostitution, the character of which on reasonable inquiry could have been ascertained by him, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars.

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Cited in 1 case, 2018–2018 · leading case: Commonwealth v. Brown, 112 N.E.3d 264 (Mass. 2018).
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Commonwealth v. Brown, 112 N.E.3d 264 (Mass. 2018). “" (emphasis added). An Act relative to the procuring and detaining of women for immoral purposes, 1910 House Bill No.”
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