Mo. Rev. Stat. § 573.575: Sadistic online exploitation, offense of — violation, penalty.

1. A person commits the offense of sadistic online exploitation if he or she:

(1) Uses the internet to manipulate, intimidate, hurt, scare, control, or threaten a victim to undergo suffering through forcing their submission, use of violence, self-harm, or destruction for sadistic or sinister purposes;

(2) Coerces a victim into performing self-harm, animal harm, harming another person, sharing personal* information, or suicidal actions or ideations;

(3) Uses nonphysical forms of coercion, manipulation, shame or fear to extort another person into providing sexually explicit content then using such content to further extort, threaten, or control the victim; or

(4) Uses intimate depictions as devices to threaten or coerce a victim by demanding any kind of financial gain.

2. The offense of sadistic online exploitation shall be a class E felony.