Article 203 Bis Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE EIGHT. CRIMES AGAINST THE FREE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY. · CHAPTER III. Sexual Tourism against Persons Under Eighteen Years of Age or against Persons who do not have the Capacity to understand the Meaning of the Act or against 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
Whoever carries out any type of real or simulated sexual acts with one or several persons under eighteen years of age, or with one or several persons who do not have the capacity to understand the meaning of the act or with one or several persons who do not have the capacity to resist it, by virtue of sexual tourism, shall be imposed a penalty of twelve to sixteen years of imprisonment and of two thousand to three thousand days fine; likewise, they shall be subject to specialized psychiatric treatment.