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Mississippi Code Title 97. Crimes § 97-3-119.3

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(1) A person commits the offense of aggravated sexual extortion if the person intentionally threatens, including through the use of electronic mail or electronic communication, to release, exhibit or distribute a private image of another in order to compel or attempt to compel the victim to do any act or refrain from doing any act against his or her will, with the intent to obtain an additional private image or anything else of value, and either:

(a) The victim is a minor or vulnerable person, and the person convicted of sexual extortion is an adult; or

(b) The victim suffers great bodily injury or death, and the appropriate court finds beyond a reasonable doubt that the sexual extortion of the victim was the proximate cause of the great bodily injury or death.

(2) A person convicted of aggravated sexual extortion shall be imprisoned not more than fifteen (15) years.

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