Criminal Provisions

(a)Trafficking in Persons. Any person who knowingly:

(1)recruits, entices, solicits, isolates, harbors, transports, provides, or obtains by any means or attempts to recruit, entice, solicit, isolate, harbor, transport, provide, or obtain by any means, another person, knowing that the COL 6/21/2023 CH. 26 HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CRIMINAL EXPLOITATION person will be subjected to sexual servitude of a minor or involuntary servitude, or

(2)benefits, financially or by receiving anything of value, from participation in a venture which has engaged in an act described in paragraph 1(a), commits a second degree felony.

(b)Sexual Servitude of a Minor. knowingly: Any person who

(1)recruits, entices, solicits, isolates, harbors, transports, provides, or obtains, by any means, or attempts to recruit, entice, solicit, isolate, harbor, transport, provide, or obtain by any means, any minor for the purpose of commercial sex acts or sexually explicit performance, or

(2)benefits, financially or by receiving anything of value, from participation in a venture which has engaged in an act described in paragraph 2(a), commits a first degree felony.

(c)Involuntary Servitude. Any person who knowingly subjects, or attempts to subject, another person to:

(1)commercial performance, or sex acts or sexually explicit

(2)labor or services through the use of any of the following means:

(A)causing or threatening to cause serious harm to any person;

(B)physically restraining or threatening to physically restrain another person;

(C)abusing or threatening to abuse the law or legal process;

(D)knowingly destroying, concealing, removing, confiscating or possessing any actual or purported passport or other immigration document, or any other actual or purported government identification document, of another person; COL 6/21/2023 CH. 26 HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CRIMINAL EXPLOITATION

(E)extortion or blackmail;

(F)deception or fraud;

(G)debt coercion;

(H)causing or threatening to cause financial harm to any person;

(I)facilitating or controlling a victim's access to an addictive controlled substance; or

(J)using any scheme, plan, or pattern, whether overt or subtle, intended to cause any person to believe that, if the person did not perform such labor, services, acts or performances, that person or another person would suffer serious harm or physical restraint, commits a first degree felony.

(d)Accomplice Liability. Any person who knowingly aids, abets, or conspires with one or more persons to violate the criminal provisions of this subsection shall be punishable in the same manner as for a completed violation of that section.