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Idaho Code § 18-8608: human sex trafficking of a child.

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  1. TITLE 18 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
  2. CHAPTER 86 HUMAN TRAFFICKING

A person who is eighteen (18) years of age or older commits the felony of human sex trafficking of a child if the person:

(1) Traffics a child and knowingly, by any means, causes or attempts to cause the trafficked person to engage in or become the victim of:

(a) Commercial sexual activity;

(b) A sexually explicit performance; or

(c) Conduct prohibited by:

(i) Section 18-924 (sexual battery);

(ii) Section 18-925 (aggravated sexual battery);

(iii) Section 18-6101 (rape);

(iv) Section 18-1506 (sexual abuse of a child under sixteen years);

(v) Section 18-1507 (sexual exploitation of a child);

(vi) Section 18-1507A (sexual exploitation of a child by electronic means);

(vii) Section 18-1508 (lewd conduct with a minor child under sixteen);

(viii) Section 18-1508A (sexual battery of a minor child sixteen or seventeen years of age);

(ix) Section 18-5602 (procurement);

(x) Section 18-5603 (receiving pay for procurement);

(xi) Section 18-5604 (paying for procurement);

(xii) Section 18-5605 (detention for commercial sexual activity);

(xiii) Section 18-5606 (receiving proceeds of illegal sexual activity);

(xiv) Section 18-5608 (place of commercial sexual activity);

(xv) Section 18-5609 (inducing a child into commercial sexual activity);

(xvi) Section 18-5610 (utilizing a child for commercial sexual activity);

(xvii) Section 18-5611 (inducing a child to engage in commercial sexual activity);

(xviii) Section 18-5613 (providing commercial sexual activity);

(xix) Section 18-5614 (soliciting commercial sexual activity);

(xx) Section 18-6601 (incest);

(xxi) Section 18-6602 (sexual abuse of an animal);

(xxii) Section 18-6603 (sexual abuse of human remains); or

(xxiii) Section 18-6604 (forcible penetration by use of a foreign object);

(2) Engages in sexual contact with a child being trafficked in the manner described in subsection (1) of this section; or

(3) Receives any benefit from participating in a venture knowing that the venture involves an activity described in subsection (1) of this section.

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