Human Trafficking - Related Statutes
Virginia Anti-Trafficking Criminal Laws & Information - 2011 (Source: Virginia Office of the Attorney General)
Model Law Against Trafficking in Persons (Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes)
63.2-100 Definitions (Source: LIS Virginia Law: Code of Virginia)
2.2-515.2 Address Confidentiality Program (Source: LIS Virginia Law: Code of Virginia)
18.2-355 Taking and Detaining etc. person for prostituion (Source: LIS Virginia Law: Code of Virginia)
18.2-357.1 Commercial Sex Trafficking (Source: LIS Virginia Law: Code of Virginia)
18.2-47(B) Abduction for forced labor (Source: LIS Virginia Law: Code of Virginia)
18.2-49 Threatening, attempting or assisting in such abduction (Source: LIS Virginia Law: Code of Virginia)
18.2-59 Extortion (Source: LIS Virginia Law: Code of Virginia)
18.2-356 Receiving money for procuring person (Source: LIS Virginia Law: Code of Virginia)
Substantive Laws: Sex Trafficking (Source: LIS Virginia Law: Code of Virginia)
18.2-49 Threatening, attempting or assisting in such abduction
18.2-346(B) Solicitation of prostitution
18.2-347 Keeping, residing in or frequenting a bawdy place (brothel)
18.2-349 Using vehicles to promote prostitution
18.2-355 Taking person for prostitution, or consenting thereto
18.2-356 Receiving money for procuring person
18.2-357 Receiving money from earnings of prostitute
18.2-370(B) Taking indecent liberties with children: Sexually explicit visual material
18.2-374.1 Production of child pornography
18.2-374.3 Use of communication systems to facilitate certain offenses involving children
Below are statutes related to additional offenses that often co-occur with human trafficking
Completed Sex Offenses (Source: LIS Virginia Law: Code of Virginia)
18.2-63 Knowledge of child between thirteen and fifteen years of age
18.2-67.2 Object sexual penetration
18.2-67.3 Aggravated sexual battery
18.2-67.4:2 Sexual abuse of a child under 15 years of age
18.2-370(A) Taking indecent liberties with children
18.2-371 Contributing to the delinquency of a minor
Virginia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act (Source: LIS Virginia Law: Code of Virginia)
Racketeering is an organized crime that is often associated and found in conjunction with human trafficking.
18.2-514 Racketeering offenses
18.2-515 Criminal penalties; forfeiture
18.2-516 Prohibition of illegal money
Other Statutes (Source: LIS Virginia Law: Code of Virginia)
18.2-18 Principals in the second degree & accessories before the fact
18.2-22 Conspiracy to commit felony
18.2-46.1 Criminal street gangs
18.2-359(A) Venue for prosecutions
19.2-386.16 Forfeiture of motor vehicles used in commission of certain crimes
