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CITE

    18 USC Sec. 1591                                            01/02/2006

EXPCITE

    TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
    PART I - CRIMES
    CHAPTER 77 - PEONAGE, SLAVERY, AND TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS

HEAD

    Sec. 1591. Sex trafficking of children or by force, fraud, or
      coercion

STATUTE

      (a) Whoever knowingly -
        (1) in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, or within
      the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United
      States, recruits, entices, harbors, transports, provides, or
      obtains by any means a person; or
        (2) benefits, financially or by receiving anything of value,
      from participation in a venture which has engaged in an act
      described in violation of paragraph (1),
    knowing that force, fraud, or coercion described in subsection
    (c)(2) will be used to cause the person to engage in a commercial
    sex act, or that the person has not attained the age of 18 years
    and will be caused to engage in a commercial sex act, shall be
    punished as provided in subsection (b).
      (b) The punishment for an offense under subsection (a) is -
        (1) if the offense was effected by force, fraud, or coercion or
      if the person recruited, enticed, harbored, transported,
      provided, or obtained had not attained the age of 14 years at the
      time of such offense, by a fine under this title or imprisonment
      for any term of years or for life, or both; or
        (2) if the offense was not so effected, and the person
      recruited, enticed, harbored, transported, provided, or obtained
      had attained the age of 14 years but had not attained the age of
      18 years at the time of such offense, by a fine under this title
      or imprisonment for not more than 40 years, or both.
      (c) In this section:
        (1) The term "commercial sex act" means any sex act, on account
      of which anything of value is given to or received by any person.
        (2) The term "coercion" means -
          (A) threats of serious harm to or physical restraint against
        any person;
          (B) any scheme, plan, or pattern intended to cause a person
        to believe that failure to perform an act would result in
        serious harm to or physical restraint against any person; or
          (C) the abuse or threatened abuse of law or the legal
        process.
        (3) The term "venture" means any group of two or more
      individuals associated in fact, whether or not a legal entity.

SOURCE

    (Added Pub. L. 106-386, div. A, Sec. 112(a)(2), Oct. 28, 2000, 114
    Stat. 1487; amended Pub. L. 108-21, title I, Sec. 103(a)(3), Apr.
    30, 2003, 117 Stat. 653; Pub. L. 108-193, Sec. 5(a), Dec. 19, 2003,
    117 Stat. 2879.)

AMENDMENTS

      2003 - Pub. L. 108-193, Sec. 5(a)(1), inserted comma after
    "fraud" in section catchline.
      Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 108-193, Sec. 5(a)(2), substituted "in or
    affecting interstate or foreign commerce, or within the special
    maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States" for "in
    or affecting interstate commerce".
      Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 108-193, Sec. 5(a)(3), substituted "the
    person recruited, enticed, harbored, transported, provided, or
    obtained" for "the person transported" in pars. (1) and (2).
      Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 108-21 substituted "40" for "20".