9 GCA § 26.04: Non-Defenses to Trafficking In Persons.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 9: Crimes and Corrections
- Chapter 26: Human Trafficking and Criminal Exploitation Act of 2009
- ARTICLE 1: PROSECUTION
Evidence of the following facts or conditions shall not constitute a defense in a prosecution for violations of this article, nor shall such evidence preclude a finding of a violation:
(a) a trafficking victim’s sexual history or history of commercial sexual activity, including any acts that may be covered by the rape shield law;
(b) a trafficking victim’s connection by blood or marriage to a defendant in the case or to anyone involved in the victim’s trafficking;
(c) consent of or permission by a trafficking victim or anyone else on the trafficking victim’s behalf to any commercial sex act or sexually explicit performance;
(d) age of consent to sex, legal age of marriage, or other discretionary age;
(e) mistake as to the victim’s age, even if the mistake is reasonable.
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