nature with a person of the sex.If the act was committed with a minor, the maximum
penalty will be always pronounced.
ART.319.- anyone who has committed or attempted to commit a rape will be
punished by a prison term of five to ten years.
If the offense has been committed or simply attempted on the person of a child of
less than fifteen years old, the maximum penalty will be increased to fifteen years of
imprisonment.
Anyone who has committed or attempted to commit an indecent assault, consumed
or attempted with violence against individuals of one sex or the other, will be
punished with a sentence of five to ten years.
If the offense was committed on the person of a child below the age of fifteen years
old, the maximum of the penalty will be increased to fifteen years of imprisonment.
ART.320.- If the culprits are the ascendants of the person on which has been
committed the attack, if they are of those who have authority over it, if they are of
those who are responsible for his education or his servants to wages of persons
below designated, if they are civil servants or ministers of worship, or if the guilty
whatever it may be, has been using in his offense by one or more persons, the
penalty will be that of a imprisonment of ten years.
ART.321.- In the cases provided for in articles 318-319 and 320, it will not be
delivered to suspend the execution of the penalty.
ART.322.- will be considered as pimp and punishable by a prison term of one to
three years, and a fine of 75,000 to 1,000,000 francs, without prejudice to the more
severe penalties if there is anoth, the man or woman 1°)- which, in any way, help, assisted or protected knowingly the prostitution of
others or soliciting for prostitution.
2°)- which, in any form, sharing the products of the prostitution of others or receives
subsidies of a person engaged usually to prostitution.
3°)- who, knowingly, lives with a person who is engaged in prostitution.
4°)- which, being habitual relations with one or more persons engaged in
prostitution, cannot justify resources corresponding to its lifestyle.
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