§ 14-81. Pandering.

Any person who procures a female inmate for a house of prostitution; or who shall induce, persuade, encourage, inveigle or entice a female person to become a prostitute; or who by promises, threats, violence or by any device or scheme, shall cause or influence a female person to become an inmate of a house of prostitution, or assignation, or any place where prostitution is practiced, encouraged, or allowed; or any person who shall by threats, violence or oppression cause an inmate of a house of prostitution or place of assignation to remain therein as such inmate, or any person who by promises, threats, violence, fraud or artifice, or by abuse of any position of confidence or authority shall cause or influence any female person to enter any place within this city in which prostitution is practiced, encouraged, or allowed, for the purpose of prostitution; or who shall inveigle, entice, persuade, encourage, or procure any female person to come into this city or to leave this city for the purpose of prostitution or who shall take or detain a female with intent to compel her by force, threats, menace or duress to marry him or to marry any other person or be defiled; or who shall upon the pretense of marriage take or detain a female person for the purpose of sexual intercourse; or who shall receive or give, or agree to receive or give any money or thing of value for procuring or attempting to procure any female person to become a prostitute or to come into this city or leave this city for the purpose of prostitution shall be guilty of pandering, and upon conviction, shall be guilty of an offense.

(Code 1958, § 49.40)

State law reference

Prostitution, RSMo Ch. 567.