TITLE 18

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 86

HUMAN TRAFFICKING

18-8607.  Human sex trafficking. A person commits the felony of human sex trafficking if the person knowingly:

(1)  Traffics another person and causes or attempts to cause, through force, fraud, or coercion, the trafficked person to engage in or become the victim of:

(a)  Commercial sexual activity;

(b)  A sexually explicit performance; or

(c)  Conduct prohibited by:

(i)   Section 18-5602 (procurement);

(ii)  Section 18-5603 (receiving pay for procurement);

(iii) Section 18-5604 (paying for procurement);

(iv)  Section 18-5605 (detention for commercial sexual activity);

(v)   Section 18-5606 (receiving proceeds of illegal sexual activity);

(vi)  Section 18-5608 (place of commercial sexual activity);

(vii) Section 18-5609 (inducing a child into commercial sexual activity);

(viii) Section 18-5610 (utilizing a child for commercial sexual activity);

(ix)  Section 18-5611 (inducing a child to engage in commercial sexual activity);

(x)   Section 18-5613 (providing commercial sexual activity); or

(xi)  Section 18-5614 (soliciting commercial sexual activity);

(2)  Engages in sexual contact with a person being trafficked in the manner described in subsection (1) of this section; or

(3)  Receives any benefit from participating in a venture that involves an activity described in subsection (1) of this section.

History:

[18-8607, added 2024, ch. 147, sec. 28, p. 567.]