Definitions

(a)Commercial sex acts means any sex act on account of which anything of value is given, promised to, or received, or exchanged, directly or indirectly, by any person.

(b)Debt coercion means exploitation of the status or condition of a debtor arising from a pledge by the debtor of his or her personal services or those of a person under his or her control as a security or payment for debt, if the value of those services as reasonably assessed is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt or the length and nature of those services are not respectively limited and defined or if the principal amount of the debt does not reasonably reflect the value of the items or services for which the debt was incurred.

(c)Extortion is to be given its ordinary meaning as defined by existing Guam law. COL 6/21/2023 CH. 26 HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CRIMINAL EXPLOITATION

(d)Financial harm includes credit extortion as defined by existing Guam laws and/or relevant Federal legislation, criminal violation of the usury laws as defined by existing Guam and/or Federal legislation or legal precedents, or employment contracts that violate relevant Statutes of Frauds as defined by Guam and Federal regulations.

(e)Labor means work of economic or financial value.

(f)Minor refers to any natural person under 18 years of age.

(g)Person includes an individual, corporation, partnership, association, a government body, a municipal corporation, or any other legal entity.

(h)Services means any act committed at the behest of, under the supervision of, or for the benefit of another.

(i)Sex act refers to criminal sexual conduct, including sexual penetration and sexual contact, as defined in Title 9 GCA Chapter 25, and any other crime as defined in Title 9 GCA Chapter 25A, Chapter 28, and Chapter 89.

(j)Sexually-explicit performance means an act or show, intended to arouse, satisfy the sexual desires of, or appeal to the prurient interests of patrons or viewers, whether public or private, live, photographed, recorded, or videotaped.

(k)Victim of trafficking in persons means any person, whether a U.S. citizen or foreign national, who has been subjected to the crime of trafficking in persons, involuntary servitude, sexual servitude of a minor, or transported in violation of trafficking of persons for forced labor or service as set forth herein.