South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts68—Use of children in commercial sexual services
(1) A person must not
employ, engage, cause or permit a child to provide, or to continue to provide,
commercial sexual services.
Maximum penalty:
(a) if
the child is under the age of 14 years—imprisonment for life;
(b) in
any other case—imprisonment for 9 years.
(2) A person must not
ask a child to provide commercial sexual services.
Maximum penalty:
(a) if
the child is under the age of 14 years—imprisonment for 9 years;
(b) in
any other case—imprisonment for 3 years.
(3) A person must
not—
(a) have
an arrangement with a child who provides commercial sexual services under
which the person receives, on a regular or systematic basis, the proceeds, or
a share in the proceeds, of commercial sexual services provided by the child;
or
(b)
exploit a child by obtaining money knowing it to be the proceeds of commercial
sexual services provided by the child.
Maximum penalty:
(a) if
the child is under the age of 14 years—imprisonment for 5 years;
(b) in
any other case—imprisonment for 2 years.
(4) In proceedings for
an offence against this section, it is not necessary for the prosecution to
establish that the defendant knew the victim of the alleged offence to be a
child.
(5) However, it is a
defence to a charge of an offence against this section if it is proved that
the defendant believed on reasonable grounds that the victim had attained
18 years of age.