Virginia legal term
Sex trafficking in Virginia Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Virginia legislative session
In Virginia criminal law, “Sex trafficking” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Virginia criminal code.
What does “Sex trafficking” mean in Virginia criminal law?
"Sex trafficking" means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act that is induced by force, fraud, or coercion or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age. (Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-327.15)
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