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Statewide Anti-Trafficking Laws
§13A-6-153: Human Trafficking in the Second Degree
SYNOPSIS: HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN THE SECOND DEGREE (CLASS B FELONY) OCCURS WHEN A PERSON BENEFITS FROM OR KNOWINGLY PARTICIPATES AND INVOLVES IN LABOR OR SEXUAL SERVITUDE OF ANOTHER PERSON. ANY CORPORATION CAN BE PROSECUTED IF ITS AGENTS COMMIT HUMAN TRAFFICKING ON BEHALF OF THE CORPORATION.
Section 13A-6-153
Human trafficking in the second degree.
(a) A person commits the crime of human trafficking in the second degree if:
(1) A person knowingly benefits, financially or by receiving anything of value, from participation in a venture or engagement for the purpose of sexual servitude or labor servitude.
(2) A person knowingly recruits, entices, solicits, induces, harbors, transports, holds, restrains, provides, maintains, subjects, or obtains by any means another person for the purpose of labor servitude or sexual servitude.
(3) A corporation, or any other legal entity other than an individual, may be prosecuted for human trafficking in the second degree for an act or omission only if an agent of the corporation or entity performs the conduct which is an element of the crime while acting within the scope of his or her office or employment and on behalf of the corporation or entity, and the commission of the crime was either authorized, requested, commanded, performed, or within the scope of the person's employment on behalf of the corporation or entity or constituted a pattern of conduct that an agent of the corporation or entity knew or should have known was occurring.
(4) Any person who obstructs, or attempts to obstruct, or in any way interferes with or prevents the enforcement of this section shall be guilty of a Class B felony.
(b) Human trafficking in the second degree is a Class B felony.