Encouragement, mediation, or receipt of compensation for exercising prostitution shall be punishable by two to five years of imprisonment.
When the same offence is committed with minors, against several persons, with persons who are close kin, close kin of the spouse, who have custodial relationships or availing themselves of their official relationship, or when committed in complicity or more than once, or by state and public officials, shall be punishable by seven to fifteen years of imprisonment.