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) Human trafficking is a Class B felony unless the victim of human trafficking is under eighteen (18) years of age, in which case it is a Class A felony.
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, obtains, advertises, maintains, patronizes, or solicits by any means, or attempts to recruit, entice, harbor, transport, provide, obtain, advertise, maintain, patronize, or solicit by any means, another person, knowing that the person will be subject to human trafficking.
(2) Promoting human trafficking is a Class C felony unless a victim of the trafficking is under eighteen (18), in which case it is a Class B felony.
Definitions
"Serious harm"
means any harm, whether physical or nonphysical, including psychological, financial, or reputational harm, that is sufficiently serious to compel a reasonable person to perform or to continue performing commercial sexual activity in order to avoid incurring that harm;
"Force, fraud, or coercion" includes but is not limited to:
(a) The use or threat of force against, abduction of, restraint, or serious harm of an individual;
(b) The abuse or threatened abuse of law or legal process;
(c) Facilitating, controlling, or threatening to control an individual's access to a controlled substance;
(d) Knowingly destroying, concealing, removing, confiscating, or possessing, or attempting to destroy, conceal, remove, confiscate, or possess any actual or purported passport or other immigration documents or any other actual or purported governmental identification documents of the person or family member;
(e) Use of debt bondage; or
(f) The use of an individual's physical or mental impairment when the impairment has a substantial adverse effect on the individual's cognitive or volitional function;
"Debt bondage" means the status or condition of a debtor arising from a pledge by the debtor of his or her personal services or of those of a person under his or her control as a security for the debt, if the value of those services as reasonably assessed is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt or the length and nature of those services are not respectively limited and defined;
"Forced labor or services" means labor or services that are performed or provided by another person and that are obtained through force, fraud, or coercion;