• 2010 - Human Trafficking
  • K-8.76
    • Kidnapping
    • Sexual Offenses
    • Other Personal Crimes
    • Other Personal Crimes

  • The State’s burden of proof is satisfied if the evidence shows, beyond a reasonable doubt, the following essential elements:

     

    1) On or about [month] [day] [year], in [County], North Dakota, the Defendant, ______________,

     

    [2) [Benefited financially] [Received anything of value,]

     

    3) From knowingly participating in [labor trafficking] [sex trafficking].] [2) [Promoted] [Recruited] [Enticed] [Harbored] [Transported] [Provided] [Obtained by any means], or attempted to [promote] [recruit] [entice] [harbor] [transport] [provide] [obtain by any means], another person, 3) Knowing that the person would be subject to [labor trafficking] [sex trafficking].] [

     

    4) [The victim, _______________, is under the age of eighteen years].]

     

    DEFINITIONS [Insert relevant definitions 12.1-40-02; 12.1-02-02.]


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  • Notes: An offense under this section is a class AA felony if the person subject to human trafficking is less than eighteen (18) years of age. Otherwise, the offense is a class A felony. If the person subject to human trafficking is under the age of eighteen (18) years, it is no defense that the actor did not know the child’s age or reasonably believed the child to be eighteen (18) years of age or older.