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Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 21-5515

(a) Sexual extortion is communicating by any means a threat to injure the property or reputation of a person, commit violence against a person, or distribute an image, video or other recording of a person that is of a sexual nature or depicts such person in a state of nudity:

(1) With the intent to coerce such person to: (A) Engage in sexual contact, sexual intercourse or conduct that is of a sexual nature; or (B) produce, provide or distribute an image, video or other recording of a person in a state of nudity or engaging in conduct that is of a sexual nature; or

(2) that causes such person to: (A) Engage in sexual contact, sexual intercourse or conduct that is of a sexual nature; or (B) produce, provide or distribute an image, video or other recording of a person in a state of nudity or engaging in conduct that is of a sexual nature.

(b) Sexual extortion as defined in:

(1) Subsection (a)(1) is a severity level 7, person felony; and

(2) subsection (a)(2) is a severity level 4, person felony.

(c) This section shall be a part of and supplemental to the Kansas criminal code.