CO Code § 18-3-504 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 18 - Criminal Code|Article 3 - Offenses Against the Person|Part 5 - Human Trafficking and Slavery|§ 18-3-504. Human Trafficking for Sexual Servitude - Human Trafficking of a Minor for Sexual Servitude

     A person commits human trafficking for sexual servitude if the person knowingly sells, recruits, harbors, transports, transfers, isolates, entices, provides, receives, or obtains by any means another person for the purpose of coercing the person to engage in commercial sexual activity.    Human trafficking for sexual servitude is a class 3 felony.         A person commits human trafficking of a minor for sexual servitude if the person:   Knowingly sells, recruits, harbors, transports, transfers, isolates, entices, provides, receives, obtains by any means, maintains, or makes available a minor for the purpose of commercial sexual activity; or    Knowingly advertises, offers to sell, or sells travel services that facilitate an activity prohibited pursuant to subsection (2)(a)(I) of this section.       Human trafficking of a minor for sexual servitude is a class 2 felony. The court shall sentence a person convicted of such a class 2 felony to the department of corrections for a term of at least the minimum of the presumptive range for a class 2 felony, as set forth in section 18-1.3-401.    In any prosecution under this subsection (2), it is not a defense that:   The minor consented to being sold, recruited, harbored, transported, transferred, isolated, enticed, provided, received, obtained, or maintained by the defendant for the purpose of engaging in commercial sexual activity;    The minor consented to participating in commercial sexual activity;    The defendant did not know the minor's age or reasonably believed the minor to be eighteen years of age or older; or    The minor or another person represented the minor to be eighteen years of age or older. (2.5) It is an affirmative defense to a charge pursuant to subsection (2) of this section if the person being charged can demonstrate by a preponderance of the evidence that, at the time of the offense, he or she was a victim of human trafficking for sexual servitude who was forced or coerced into engaging in the human trafficking of minors for sexual servitude pursuant to subsection (2) of this section.          A person does not need to receive any of the proceeds of any commercial sexual activity to commit an offense described in this section.    Conviction for an offense described in this section does not preclude conviction for an offense described in article 6 or 7 of this title based in whole or in part on the same or related conduct, and the court shall not require the prosecution to elect at trial between such offenses.      History. Source: L. 2014: Entire part R&RE,(HB 14-1273), ch. 282, p. 1146, § 1, effective July 1. L. 2017: (2)(b) amended,(HB 17-1172), ch. 161, p. 598, § 1, effective August 9; (2)(a) amended and (2.5) added,(HB 17-1072), ch. 250, p. 1049, § 2, effective September 1. L. 2019: (1)(a) and (2)(a) amended,(SB 19-185), ch. 147, p. 1766, § 4, effective May 6.    Cross references:   For the legislative declaration in SB 19-185, see section 1 of chapter 147, Session Laws of Colorado 2019.   ANNOTATION   Former § 18-3-502 prohibited the sale, exchange, barter, or lease of a child but not the sale, exchange, barter, or lease of a child's services. Patrons of a prostituted minor victim purchased only her services and did not purchase the victim herself. People v. Cardenas, 2014 COA 35 , 338 P.3d 430.