CPF · Article 204

Article 204 Federal Criminal Code

BOOK TWO · TITLE EIGHT. CRIMES AGAINST THE FREE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY. · CHAPTER IV. Pandering 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 pimping 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:

I.- Every person who exploits the body of the aforementioned persons, by means of carnal commerce or obtains from it any profit whatsoever;

II.- Whoever induces or solicits any of the aforementioned persons, to sexually trade with their body or facilitates the means for them to engage in prostitution, and

III.- Whoever keeps, administers or maintains directly or indirectly, brothels, assignation houses or places of gathering dedicated to exploiting the prostitution 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, or obtains any benefit from their products.

Those responsible for this crime shall be imposed imprisonment of eight to fifteen years and of one thousand to two thousand five hundred days of fine, as well as definitive closure of the establishments described in section III.

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Federal Criminal Code, Article 204. https://articuladomx.com/en/federal-criminal-code/article-204/

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Corpus 2026.10.08