What is Human Trafficking?
Human Trafficking:
Human Trafficking is exploitation for commercial sex or labor through the use of force, fraud, or coercion. Victims include men, women, and children of every race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, nationality, and religion. Elements of sex and labor trafficking often overlap. Human Trafficking occurs throughout the U.S. in both rural and urban areas.
Kentucky Statutes
Chapter 529.
529.100 Human trafficking.
(1) A person is guilty of human trafficking when the person intentionally subjects one
(1) or more persons to engage in:
(a) Forced labor or services; or
(b) Commercial sexual activity through the use of force, fraud, or coercion,
except that if the person is under the age of eighteen (18), the commercial
sexual activity need not involve force, fraud, or coercion.
(2) (a) Human trafficking is a Class C felony unless it involves serious physical
injury to a trafficked person, in which case it is a Class B felony.
(b) If the victim of human trafficking is under eighteen (18) years of age, the
penalty for the offense shall be one (1) level higher than the level otherwise
specified in this section.
Effective: July 15, 2020
529.110 Promoting human trafficking.
(1) A person is guilty of promoting human trafficking when the person intentionally:
(a) Benefits financially or receives anything of value from knowing participation
in human trafficking; or
(b) Recruits, entices, harbors, transports, provides, or obtains by any means, or
attempts to recruit, entice, harbor, transport, provide, or obtain by any means,
another person, knowing that the person will be subject to human trafficking.
(2) Promoting human trafficking is a Class D felony unless a victim of the trafficking is
under eighteen (18), in which case it is a Class C felony.
Effective: June 26, 2007