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19-5-1252. Safe Harbor Fund for Sexually Exploited Children — Definition.
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19-5-1252. Safe Harbor Fund for Sexually Exploited Children — Definition.
(a) There is created on the books of the Treasurer of State, the Auditor of State, and the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State a fund to be known as the “Safe Harbor Fund for Sexually Exploited Children”.
(b) The fund shall consist of fines collected under §§ 5-18-103(d), 5-70-102(d), and 5-70-103(d) and any other revenues authorized by law.
(c)(1) The fund shall be administered by the Department of Human Services.
(2) The department shall use the fund to provide:
(A) Services and treatment, such as securing residential housing, health services, and social services for sexually exploited children;
(B) Grants to service providers working with sexually exploited children; and
(C) For the management and operation of the fund.
(d) As used in this section, “sexually exploited child” means a person less than eighteen (18) years of age who has been subject to sexual exploitation because the person:
(1) Is a victim of trafficking of persons under § 5-18-103;
(2) Is a victim of child sex trafficking under 18 U.S.C. § 1591, as it existed on January 1, 2013; or
(3) Engages in an act of prostitution under § 5-70-102 or sexual solicitation under § 5-70-103.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 19-5-1252
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19-5-1252. Safe Harbor Fund for Sexually Exploited Children — Definition.
(a) There is created on the books of the Treasurer of State, the Auditor of State, and the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State a fund to be known as the “Safe Harbor Fund for Sexually Exploited Children”.
(b) The fund shall consist of fines collected under §§ 5-18-103(d), 5-70-102(d), and 5-70-103(d) and any other revenues authorized by law.
(c)(1) The fund shall be administered by the Department of Human Services.
(2) The department shall use the fund to provide:
(A) Services and treatment, such as securing residential housing, health services, and social services for sexually exploited children;
(B) Grants to service providers working with sexually exploited children; and
(C) For the management and operation of the fund.
(d) As used in this section, “sexually exploited child” means a person less than eighteen (18) years of age who has been subject to sexual exploitation because the person:
(1) Is a victim of trafficking of persons under § 5-18-103;
(2) Is a victim of child sex trafficking under 18 U.S.C. § 1591, as it existed on January 1, 2013; or
(3) Engages in an act of prostitution under § 5-70-102 or sexual solicitation under § 5-70-103.
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Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities
**(a)** Whoever knowingly—
(1) in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, recruits, entices, harbors, transports, provides, obtains, advertises, maintains, patronizes, or solicits by any means a person; or
(2) benefits, financially or by receiving anything of value, from participation in a venture which has engaged in an act described in violation of paragraph (1),
knowing, or, except where the act constituting the violation of paragraph (1) is advertising, in reckless disregard of the fact, that means of force, threats of force, fraud, coercion described in subsection (e)(2), or any combination of such means will be used to cause the person to engage in a commercial sex act, or that the person has not attained the age of 18 years and will be caused to engage in a commercial sex act, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b).
**(b)** The punishment for an offense under subsection (a) is—
(1) if the offense was effected by means of force, threats of force, fraud, or coercion described in subsection (e)(2), or by any combination of such means, or if the person recruited, enticed, harbored, transported, provided, obtained, advertised, patronized, or solicited had not attained the age of 14 years at the time of such offense, by a fine under this title and imprisonment for any term of years not less than 15 or for life; or
(2) if the offense was not so effected, and the person recruited, enticed, harbored, transported, provided, obtained, advertised, patronized, or solicited had attained the age of 14 years but had not attained the age of 18 years at the time of such offense, by a fine under this title and imprisonment for not less than 10 years or for life.
**(c)** In a prosec
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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 1590
(1) by means of force, threats of force, phys-
ical restraint, or threats of physical restraint
to that person or another person;
(2) by means of serious harm or threats of se-
rious harm to that person or another person;
(3) by means of the abuse or threatened
abuse of law or legal process; or
(4) by means of any scheme, plan, or pattern
intended to cause the person to believe that, if
that person did not perform such labor or serv-
ices, that person or another person would suf-
fer serious harm or physical restraint,
shall be punished as provided under subsection
(d).
(b) Whoever knowingly benefits, financially or
by receiving anything of value, from participa-
tion in a venture which has engaged in the pro-
viding or obtaining of labor or services by any of
the means described in subsection (a), knowing
or in reckless disregard of the fact that the ven-
ture has engaged in the providing or obtaining
of labor or services by any of such means, shall
be punished as provided in subsection (d).
(c) In this section:
(1) The term ‘‘abuse or threatened abuse of
law or legal process’’ means the use or threat-
ened use of a law or legal process, whether ad-
ministrative, civil, or criminal, in any manner
or for any purpose for which the law was not
designed, in order to exert pressure on another
person to cause that person to take some ac-
tion or refrain from taking some action.
(2) The term ‘‘serious harm’’ means any
harm, whether physical or nonphysical, in-
cluding
psychological,
financial,
or
reputational harm, that is sufficiently serious,
under all the surrounding circumstances, to
compel a reasonable person of the same back-
ground and in the same circumstances to per-
form or to continu
Source: Supplied 2024 U.S. Code historical extraction · 18 U.S.C. § 1591
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
5-18-103. Trafficking of persons.
(a) A person commits the offense of trafficking of persons if he or she knowingly:
(1) Recruits, harbors, transports, obtains, entices, solicits, isolates, provides, or maintains a person knowing that the person will be subjected to involuntary servitude;
(2) Benefits financially or benefits by receiving anything of value from participation in a venture under subdivision (a)(1) of this section;
(3) Subjects a person to involuntary servitude;
(4) Recruits, entices, solicits, isolates, harbors, transports, provides, maintains, or obtains a minor for commercial sexual activity;
(5) Sells or offers to sell travel services that he or she knows include an activity prohibited under subdivisions (a)(1)-(4) of this section;
(6) Recruits, entices, solicits, isolates, harbors, transports, provides, maintains, or obtains a pregnant woman for the purpose of causing the pregnant woman by the use of or threatened use of physical force to place the baby who is not yet born for adoption; or
(7) Benefits financially or benefits by receiving anything of value from participating in an act described under subdivision (a)(6) of this section.
(b) It is not a defense to prosecution under subdivision (a)(4) of this section that the actor:
(1) Did not have knowledge of a victim's age; or
(2) Mistakenly believed a victim was not a minor.
(c)(1) Trafficking of persons is a Class A felony.
(2) Trafficking of persons is a Class Y felony if a victim was a minor at the time of the offense.
(d) In addition to any other sentence authorized by this section, a person who violates this section by offering to pay, agreeing to pay, or paying a fee to engage in sexual activity upon conviction shall be ordered to pay a fine of two hundred fifty doll
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 5-18-103
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
5-70-102. Prostitution.
(a) A person commits prostitution if in return for or in expectation of a fee he or she engages in or agrees or offers to engage in sexual activity with any other person.
(b) Prostitution is a:
(1) Class B misdemeanor for the first offense; and
(2) Class A misdemeanor for a second or subsequent offense under this section.
(c) It is not an offense under this section if at the time of the person's commission of or arrest for an act that meets the elements of the offense of prostitution, the person was a victim of trafficking of persons, § 5-18-103.
(d)(1) If a law enforcement agency is investigating an offense under this section that has allegedly been committed by a minor, the law enforcement agency shall make every effort to determine whether the minor, at the time of the offense, was a victim of trafficking of persons, § 5-18-103.
(2) If a determination under subdivision (d)(1) of this section is made that the minor was a victim of trafficking of persons, § 5-18-103, the law enforcement agency investigating the offense shall immediately notify the prosecuting attorney.
(e) In addition to any other sentence authorized by this section, a person who violates this section by offering to pay, agreeing to pay, or paying a fee to engage in sexual activity upon conviction shall be ordered to pay a fine of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) to be deposited into the Safe Harbor Fund for Sexually Exploited Children.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 5-70-102
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
5-70-103. Sexual solicitation.
(a) A person commits the offense of sexual solicitation if he or she:
(1) Offers or agrees to pay a fee to a person to engage in sexual activity with him or her or another person; or
(2) Solicits or requests a person to engage in sexual activity with him or her in return for a fee.
(b) Sexual solicitation is an unclassified misdemeanor with the following sentences:
(1) For a first offense:
(A) No more than ninety (90) days' imprisonment;
(B) A fine of no more than two thousand dollars ($2,000); or
(C) Both imprisonment and a fine; and
(2) For a second or subsequent offense:
(A) No more than one (1) year of imprisonment;
(B) A fine of no more than three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500); or
(C) Both imprisonment and a fine.
(c) It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under this section that the person engaged in an act of sexual solicitation as a result of being a victim of trafficking of persons, § 5-18-103.
(d) In addition to any other sentence authorized by this section, a person who violates this section by offering to pay, agreeing to pay, or paying a fee to engage in sexual activity upon conviction shall be ordered to pay a fine of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) to be deposited into the Safe Harbor Fund for Sexually Exploited Children.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 5-70-103
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 5-70-103. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.