Colorado statute

C.R.S. § 18-3-504 — Human trafficking for sexual servitude - human trafficking of a minor for sexual servitude.

Current through 2025 Regular Session

Part of Part 5: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SLAVERY, Colorado Revised Statutes.

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Human trafficking for sexual servitude

Full text of C.R.S. § 18-3-504

Statutory text current through the 2025 Regular Session. This is an officially sanctioned publication using the official text of the Colorado Revised Statutes; it is not the official statutes of the State of Colorado.

C.R.S. § 18-3-504Primary source, current through the 2025 Regular Session

(1) (a) A person commits human trafficking for sexual servitude if the person knowingly sells, recruits, harbors, transports, transfers, isolates, entices, provides, receives, or obtains by any means another person for the purpose of coercing the person to engage in commercial sexual activity. (b) Human trafficking for sexual servitude is a class 3 felony. (2) (a) A person commits human trafficking of a minor for sexual servitude if the person: (I) Knowingly sells, recruits, harbors, transports, transfers, isolates, entices, provides, receives, obtains by any means, maintains, or makes available a minor for the purpose of commercial sexual activity; or (II) Knowingly advertises, offers to sell, or sells travel services that facilitate an activity prohibited pursuant to subsection (2)(a)(I) of this section. (b) Human trafficking of a minor for sexual servitude is a class 2 felony. The court shall sentence a person convicted of such a class 2 felony to the department of corrections for a term of at least the minimum of the presumptive range for a class 2 felony, as set forth in section 18-1.3-401. (c) In any prosecution under this subsection (2), it is not a defense that: (I) The minor consented to being sold, recruited, harbored, transported, transferred, isolated, enticed, provided, received, obtained, or maintained by the defendant for the purpose of engaging in commercial sexual activity; (II) The minor consented to participating in commercial sexual activity; (III) The defendant did not know the minor's age or reasonably believed the minor to be eighteen years of age or older; or (IV) The minor or another person represented the minor to be eighteen years of age or older. (2.5) It is an affirmative defense to a charge pursuant to this section if the person being charged, at the time of the offense, was a victim of human trafficking for sexual servitude who was forced or coerced into engaging in human trafficking for sexual servitude pursuant to this section. (3) A person does not need to receive any of the proceeds of any commercial sexual activity to commit an offense described in this section. (4) Conviction for an offense described in this section does not preclude conviction for an offense described in article 6 or 7 of this title based in whole or in part on the same or related conduct, and the court shall not require the prosecution to elect at trial between such offenses.

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Is human trafficking for sexual servitude a felony or a misdemeanor in Colorado?

It depends on the circumstances: human trafficking for sexual servitude ranges from a class 3 felony to a class 2 felony in Colorado under C.R.S. § 18-3-504.

Human trafficking for sexual servitude: class 3 felony (C.R.S. § 18-3-504(1)(b)) · Human trafficking of a minor for sexual servitude: class 2 felony (C.R.S. § 18-3-504(2)(b))

Which Colorado statute covers human trafficking for sexual servitude?

Human trafficking for sexual servitude is governed by C.R.S. § 18-3-504 (Human trafficking for sexual servitude - human trafficking of a minor for sexual servitude).

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