{"data":{"id":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-573.575","jurisdiction":"us-mo","citation":"Mo. Rev. Stat. § 573.575","heading":"Sadistic online exploitation, offense of — violation, penalty.","body":"1. A person commits the offense of sadistic online exploitation if he or she:\n(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;\n(2) Coerces a victim into performing self-harm, animal harm, harming another person, sharing personal* information, or suicidal actions or ideations;\n(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\n(4) Uses intimate depictions as devices to threaten or coerce a victim by demanding any kind of financial gain.\n2. The offense of sadistic online exploitation shall be a class E felony.","path":["Title XXXVIII - CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS","Chapter 573 - Pornography and Related Offenses"],"source_url":"https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=573.575","current_through":"2026 legislative session (floor)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T22:23:29Z","sha256":"3a44b3ea002dedcff9f6906efea693a7ff6a703692b54782cb8d45c245cbeee1","source_id":"us-mo","stale":false,"prev":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-573.570","next":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-574.005"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}