A person commits the crime of human trafficking if he knowingly holds/recruits/lures/entices/harbors/transports/provides/obtains, by any means, another, to engage in sexual activity or to provide labor or services by criminal coercion. A defendant “criminally coerces” another person if the defendant threatened to:
- inflict bodily injury on anyone or commit any other offense; or
- accuse anyone of an offense; or
- expose any secret which would tend to subject any person to hatred, contempt, or ridicule, or to impair that person’s credit or business reputation; or
- take or withhold action as an official, or cause an official to take or withhold action; or
- bring about or continue a strike, boycott, or other collective action; or
- testify or provide information or withhold testimony or information related to another’s legal claim or defense; or
- perform any other act which would not in itself substantially benefit the defendant but which is calculated to substantially harm another person related to that person’s health, safety, business, calling, career, financial condition, reputation, or personal relationships and the defendant did so purposely to unlawfully restrict the person’s freedom of action to engage or refrain from engaging in the conduct in question.
