KS Stat § 21-5611 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 21 - Crimes And Punishments|Article 56 - Crimes Affecting Family Relationships And Children|21-5611 Unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child.

21-5611. Unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child. (a) Unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child is knowingly transmitting a visual depiction of a child 12 or more years of age but less than 18 years of age in a state of nudity when the offender is less than 19 years of age.(b) Aggravated unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child is:(1) Knowingly transmitting a visual depiction of a child 12 or more years of age but less than 18 years of age in a state of nudity:(A) With the intent to harass, embarrass, intimidate, defame or otherwise inflict emotional, psychological or physical harm;(B) for pecuniary or tangible gain; or(C) with the intent to exhibit or transmit such visual depiction to more than one person; and(2) when the offender is less than 19 years of age.(c) (1) Unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child is a:(A) Class A person misdemeanor, except as provided in subsection (c)(1)(B); and(B) severity level 10, person felony upon a second or subsequent conviction.(2) Aggravated unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child is a:(A) Severity level 9, person felony, except as provided in subsection (c)(2)(B); and(B) severity level 7, person felony upon a second or subsequent conviction.(d) It shall be a rebuttable presumption that an offender had the intent to harass, embarrass, intimidate, defame or otherwise inflict emotional, psychological or physical harm if the offender transmitted a visual depiction of a person other than such child in a state of nudity to more than one person.(e) The provisions of this section shall not apply to transmission of a visual depiction of a child in a state of nudity by the child who is the subject of such visual depiction.(f) The provisions of this section shall not apply to a visual depiction of a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct or a visual depiction that constitutes obscenity as defined in K.S.A. 2021 Supp. 21-6401(f)(1), and amendments thereto.(g) As used in this section and K.S.A. 2021 Supp. 21-5610, and amendments thereto:(1) "Sexually explicit conduct" means actual or simulated: Sexual intercourse or sodomy, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital or oral-anal contact, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex; masturbation and sado-masochistic abuse for the purpose of sexual stimulation;(2) "state of nudity" means any state of undress in which the human genitals, pubic region, buttock or female breast, at a point below the top of the areola, is less than completely and opaquely covered;(3) "transmission" means any form of communication, including, but not limited to, physical transmission of paper and electronic transmission that creates a record that may be retained and reviewed by a recipient thereof, and that may be directly reproduced in paper form by such a recipient through an automated process. Transmission also includes a request to receive a transmission of a visual depiction; and(4) "visual depiction" means any photograph, film, video picture, digital or computer-generated image or picture made or produced by electronic, mechanical or other means.History: L. 2016, ch. 96, § 1; July 1.