West Virginia Code Chapter 61. Crimes and Their Punishment § 61-8A-5. Employment or use of minor to produce obscene matter or assist in doing sexually explicit conduct; penalties

Any adult who, with knowledge that a person is a minor or who fails to exercise reasonable care in ascertaining the age of a minor, hires, employs or uses such minor to produce obscene matter or to do or assist in doing any sexually explicit conduct, is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than fifty thousand dollars or confined in a state correctional facility for not more than ten years, or both.