Article 202 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE EIGHT. CRIMES AGAINST THE FREE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY. · CHAPTER II. Pornography of Persons Under Eighteen Years of Age or of Persons who do not have the Capacity to understand the Meaning of the Act or of Persons who do not have the Capacity to Resist it.
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
Commits the crime of pornography of persons under eighteen years of age or of persons who do not have the capacity to understand the meaning of the act or of persons who do not have the capacity to resist it, whoever procures, obliges, facilitates or induces, by any means, one or several of these persons to carry out sexual acts or acts of bodily exhibitionism with lewd or sexual purposes, real or simulated, with the object of video recording them, photographing them, filming them, exhibiting them or describing them through printed advertisements, transmission of data files in public or private telecommunications networks, computer, electronic or similar systems. The author of this crime shall be imposed a penalty of seven to twelve years of imprisonment and of eight hundred to two thousand days fine.
Whoever fixes, prints, video records, photographs, films or describes acts of bodily or lewd or sexual exhibitionism, real or simulated, in which one or several persons under eighteen years of age or one or several persons who do not have the capacity to understand the meaning of the act or one or several persons who do not have the capacity to resist it participate, shall be imposed the penalty of seven to twelve years of imprisonment and of eight hundred to two thousand days fine, as well as the confiscation of the objects, instruments and products of the crime.
The same penalty shall be imposed on whoever reproduces, stores, distributes, sells, buys, rents, exhibits, advertises, transmits, imports or exports the material referred to in the preceding paragraphs.