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| A. Belize | Section 49 (Criminal Code, Ch. 101),
Procuration - "Every person who procures or attempts to procure (a) any female under eighteen years of age, not being a common prostitute or of known immoral character, to have unlawful carnal knowledge either within or without Belize with any other person or persons; or (b) any female to become, either within or without Belize, a common prostitute; or (c) any female to leave Belize, with intent that she may become an inmate of or frequent a brothel; or (d) either within or without Belize, any female to leave her usual place of abode in Belize (such place not being a brothel), with intent that she may, for the purposes of prostitution, become an inmate of or frequent a brothel either within or without Belize shall be liable to imprisonment for five years". (Emphasis added.) Section 18(1), Trading on Prostitution - "A person who (a) being a male person, knowingly lives wholly or in part on the earnings or prostitution; or (b) being a male person, in any public place persistently solicits or importunes for immoral purposes; or (c) loiters about or importunes any person in any street or other place for the purpose of prostitution is guilty of an offence and is on summary conviction liable (I) in the case of a first conviction, to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars [US$50] or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months; and (II) in the case of a second or subsequent conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months". Section 50, Procuring defilement of female by threats or fraud or administration of drugs - "Every person who (a) by threats or intimidation or any other method of compulsion, procures or attempts to procure any female to have unlawful carnal knowledge, either within or without Belize; or (b) by false pretense or false representation, procures any female, not being a common prostitute or of known immoral character, to have any unlawful carnal knowledge, either within or without Belize; or (c) applies, administers to, or causes to be taken by, any female any drug, matter or thing, with intent to stupefy or overpower her so as thereby to enable any person to have unlawful carnal knowledge with such female, shall be liable to imprisonment for three years". |
| B. Costa Rica | Article 169 (Criminal Code), Procuring
(Proxenetismo) - "Whoever promotes the prostitution of persons of either sex or induces the exercise of prostitution or maintains a person in prostitution or recruits for the purpose of prostitution shall be sanctioned by a penalty of prison of two to five years. The same penalty shall be imposed on whoever maintains another person in sexual servitude". Article 170, Aggravated Procuring (Proxenetismo agravado) - "The penalty shall be four to ten years in prison when, in addition to the occurrence of one of the acts outlined in the previous article [procuring], one of the following circumstances exists: (1) If the victim is under eighteen years old; (2) When there is deceit, violence, abuse of authority, or any other means of intimidation or coercion; (3) If the perpetrator is an ancestor, husband, sibling, legal guardian, or in charge of the education, care or custody of the victim; (4) If the accused abused a relationship of trust with the victim or family, regardless of blood relation". Article 171, Pimping (Rufianeria)6 - "Whoever maintains oneself, even partially, by a person who exercises prostitution, exploiting the profits provided by such activity, shall be sanctioned by a penalty of prison of two to eight years. The penalty shall be: (1) Four to ten years if the victim is under twelve years old. (2) Three to nine years if the victim is between twelve and eighteen". |