Upgrades penalties for certain prostitution crimes; creates crimes of leader of prostitution network and participant in prostitution network.
This bill upgrades certain crimes related to prostitution and creates the crimes of leader of a prostitution network and participant in a prostitution network. The bill also upgrades the criminal penalties for compelling another to engage in or promote prostitution and promoting prostitution of one’s spouse from crimes of the third degree to crimes of the second degree. The bill provides that it is an affirmative defense to the crime of participant in a prostitution network that the defendant was a victim of human trafficking during the commission of the crime.
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