§ 13A-6-241 — Sexual Extortion

(a) A person commits the crime of sexual extortion if he or she does any of the following:
(1) Knowingly causes or attempts to cause another individual to engage in sexually explicit conduct by communicating any threat to injure the body, property, or reputation of any individual.
(2) Knowingly causes or attempts to cause another individual to produce any photograph, digital image, video, film, or other recording of any individual, whether recognizable or not, engaged in any act of sexually explicit conduct by communicating any threat to injure the body, property, or reputation of any individual.
(3) Knowingly threatens to release or transmit any photograph, digital image, video, film, or other recording of any individual, whether recognizable or not, engaged in any act of sexually explicit conduct in order to compel or attempt to compel the victim to do any act or refrain from doing any act against his or her will.
(b) Sexual extortion is a Class B felony.
(c) For the purposes of this section, the term “sexually explicit conduct” has the same meaning as defined in Section 13A-12-190.

Legislative History

(Act 2017-414, p. 1337, §2; Act 2019-465, §1; Act 2025-302, §1.)