Article 209 Quáter Federal Criminal Code

Commits the crime of forced cohabitation 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 obliges, coerces, induces, solicits, manages or offers one or several of these persons to join informally or customarily, with or without their consent, with someone of their same condition or with a person older than eighteen years of age, with the purpose of living together in a constant form and comparable to that of a marriage.

Those responsible for this crime shall be imposed a penalty of eight to fifteen years of imprisonment and of one thousand to two thousand five hundred days fine.

The penalty provided in the preceding paragraph shall be increased by up to one half, in its minimum and in its maximum, if the victim belongs to any Indigenous or Afro-Mexican people or community.