§ 53a-196c — Importing child sexual abuse material: Class B felony.

Connecticut § 53a-196c

• Jurisdiction: Connecticut
• Title 53a: Penal Code
• Ch. 952: Penal Code: Offenses

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(a) A person is guilty of importing child sexual abuse material when, with intent to promote child sexual abuse material, such person knowingly imports or causes to be imported into the state three or more visual depictions of child sexual abuse material of known content and character. (b) Importing child sexual abuse material is a class B felony and any person found guilty under this section shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of which five years of the sentence imposed may not be suspended or reduced by the court.

Legislative History

(P.A. 85-496, S. 5; P.A. 04-139, S. 3; P.A. 07-143, S. 7; P.A. 24-118, S. 3.) History: P.A. 04-139 amended Subsec. (a) to replace “any child pornography” with “three or more visual depictions of child pornography” and make a technical change for purposes of gender neutrality, deleted former Subsec. (b) providing that importation of two or more copies of any publication containing child pornography shall be prima facie evidence that such publications were imported with intent to promote child pornography, redesignated existing Subsec. (c) as new Subsec. (b) and amended said Subsec. to increase penalty from a class C felony to a class B felony; P.A. 07-143 amended Subsec. (b) to require any person found guilty to be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of which 5 years of the sentence imposed may not be suspended or reduced by the court, effective July 1, 2007; P.A. 24-118 replaced references to “child pornography” with “child sexual abuse material” throughout.