CODE OF VIRGINIA COMMERCIAL SEX TRAFFICKING; PENALTIES (§ 18.2-357.1) A. Any person who, with the intent to receive money or other valuable thing or to assist another in receiving money or other valuable thing from the earnings of a person from prostitution or unlawful sexual intercourse in violation of subsection A of § 18.2-346, solicits, invites, recruits, encourages, or otherwise causes or attempts to cause a person to violate subsection A of § 18.2-346 is guilty of a Class 5 felony. B. Any person who violates subsection A through the use of force, intimidation, or deception is guilty of a Class 4 felony. C. Any adult who violates subsection A with a person under the age of 18 is guilty of a Class 3 felony. HISTORY: 2015, cc. 690, 691.