N.Y. Penal Law § 230.34: Sex trafficking

§ 230.34 Sex trafficking.

A person is guilty of sex trafficking if he or she intentionally

advances or profits from prostitution by:

1. unlawfully providing to a person who is patronized, with intent to

impair said person's judgment: (a) a narcotic drug or a narcotic

preparation; (b) concentrated cannabis as defined in paragraph (a) of

subdivision four of section thirty-three hundred two of the public

health law; (c) methadone; or (d) gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) or

flunitrazepan, also known as Rohypnol;

2. making material false statements, misstatements, or omissions to

induce or maintain the person being patronized to engage in or continue

to engage in prostitution activity;

3. withholding, destroying, or confiscating any actual or purported

passport, immigration document, or any other actual or purported

government identification document of another person with intent to

impair said person's freedom of movement; provided, however, that this

subdivision shall not apply to an attempt to correct a social security

administration record or immigration agency record in accordance with

any local, state, or federal agency requirement, where such attempt is

not made for the purpose of any express or implied threat;

4. requiring that prostitution be performed to retire, repay, or

service a real or purported debt;

5. using force or engaging in any scheme, plan or pattern to compel or

induce the person being patronized to engage in or continue to engage in

prostitution activity by means of instilling a fear in the person being

patronized that, if the demand is not complied with, the actor or

another will do one or more of the following:

(a) cause physical injury, serious physical injury, or death to a

person; or

(b) cause damage to property, other than the property of the actor; or

(c) engage in other conduct constituting a felony or unlawful

imprisonment in the second degree in violation of section 135.05 of this

chapter; or

(d) accuse some person of a crime or cause criminal charges or

deportation proceedings to be instituted against some person; provided,

however, that it shall be an affirmative defense to this subdivision

that the defendant reasonably believed the threatened charge to be true

and that his or her sole purpose was to compel or induce the victim to

take reasonable action to make good the wrong which was the subject of

such threatened charge; or

(e) expose a secret or publicize an asserted fact, whether true or

false, tending to subject some person to hatred, contempt or ridicule;

or

(f) testify or provide information or withhold testimony or

information with respect to another's legal claim or defense; or

(g) use or abuse his or her position as a public servant by performing

some act within or related to his or her official duties, or by failing

or refusing to perform an official duty, in such manner as to affect

some person adversely; or

(h) perform any other act which would not in itself materially benefit

the actor but which is calculated to harm the person who is patronized

materially with respect to his or her health, safety, or immigration

status.

Sex trafficking is a class B felony