v. Ross

soliciting for child prostitution pursuant to subsections (a) and (b). The pertinent element is that “the purpose” of the defendant’s solicitation, meeting arrangement, or offer to arrange a meeting was “prostitution of a child or by a child.” And no part of that element is subject to strict liability. Finally, like the trial court and the court of appeals, the supreme court rules that, while section 18-7-407, C.R.S. (2020), precludes a defendant from raising a defense based on either his lack of knowledge of the child’s age or his reasonable belief that the child was an adult, it does not…