§ 47-a. Collateral loan broker dealing with a child. No collateral loan broker or person in the employ of a collateral loan broker shall receive or purchase any goods, chattels, wares or merchandise from, or make any loan or advance or permit to be loaned or advanced to any child, actually or apparently under the age of eighteen years any money, or in any manner directly or indirectly receive any goods, chattels, wares or merchandise from any such child in pledge for loans made or to be made to it or to any other person or otherwise howsoever. It shall be no defense to a prosecution for a violation of this section, that in the transaction upon which the prosecution is based the child acted as the agent or representative of another, or that the defendant dealt with such child as the agent or representative of another.