§ 6-2-701 — Definitions

Wyoming § 6-2-701

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 06: Crimes and Offenses
• Ch. 2: OFFENSES AGAINST THE PERSON
• Art. 7: HUMAN TRAFFICKING

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(a) As used in this article:
(i) "Benefit" means anything of value;
(ii) "Coercion" means any one (1) or more of the
following:
(A) The use or threat of force, abduction,
serious harm to or physical restraint against any individual;
(B) The use of a scheme, plan, pattern or
fraudulent statement with intent to cause an individual to
believe that failure to perform an act will result in serious
harm to or physical restraint against any individual;
(C) The abuse or threatened abuse of the law or
legal process;
(D) The abuse of a position of power or taking
advantage of a position of vulnerability;
(E) Providing a controlled substance to an
individual for the purpose of controlling the person's behavior;
(F) Interfering with lawful custody of or access
to an individual's children;
(G) The destruction of, taking of or the threat
to destroy or take an individual's identification document;
(H) The use of an individual's personal services
as security payment or satisfaction for a real or purported debt
if:
(I) The reasonable value of the services is
not applied toward the liquidation of the debt;
(II) The length of the services is not
limited and their nature is not defined;
(III) The principal amount of the debt does
not reasonably reflect the value of the items or services for
which the debt was incurred; or
(IV) The individual is prevented from
acquiring accurate and timely information about the disposition
of the debt.
(iii) "Commercial sex act" means any sexual act for
which anything of value is given to, promised or received by a
person in exchange for the sexual act;
(iv) "Deception" means:
(A) A person's creation or confirmation of an
individual's impression of material fact or event which is false
and which the person knows or has reason to believe is false,
including:
(I) The nature of labor or services to be
provided;
(II) The fundamental conditions of labor;
or
(III) The extent to which the individual
will be free to leave the individual's place of residence or
workplace; and
(B) The promise of a benefit to or performance
of a service to an individual which the person does not intend
to be delivered or performed.
(v) "Financial harm" means a detrimental position in
relation to wealth, property or other monetary benefits that
occurs as a result of another person's illegal act including,
but not limited to, blackmail, promoting of prostitution or
illegal employment contracts;
(vi) "Forced services" means services performed or
provided by a person that are obtained or maintained by another
person who:
(A) Causes or threatens to cause serious harm to
any person;
(B) Physically restrains or threatens to
physically restrain another person;
(C) Abuses or threatens to abuse the law or
legal process;
(D) Knowingly destroys, conceals, removes or
confiscates any actual or purported passport or other
immigration document, or any other actual or purported
government identification document, of another person;
(E) Engages in blackmail; or
(F) Causes or threatens to cause financial harm
to any person.
(vii) "Identification document" includes a passport,
driver's license, immigration document, travel document and any
other government issued identification document;
(viii) "Labor" means work of economic or financial
value;
(ix) "Minor" means any natural person younger than
eighteen (18) years of age;
(x) "Pecuniary damage" means all damages which a
victim could recover against the defendant in a civil action
arising out of the same facts or event, including damages for
wrongful death. It does not include punitive damages and damages
for pain, suffering, mental anguish and loss of consortium;
(xi) "Person" means an individual, partnership,
corporation, joint stock company or any other association or
entity, public or private;
(xii) "Restitution" means full or partial payment of
pecuniary damage to a victim;
(xiii) "Serious harm" means physical or nonphysical
harm or property damage, including, but not limited to, bodily
injury as defined in W.S. 6-1-104(a)(i), economic loss as
defined in W.S. 1-40-102(a)(v), personal injury as defined in
W.S. 1-40-102(a)(vii) or reputational harm sufficient to compel
a reasonable person of the same background and in the same
circumstance of the victim, to perform or to continue performing
labor, a service or a commercial sex act in order to avoid
incurring that harm;
(xiv) "Services" means activities resulting from a
relationship between a person and the actor in which the person
performs activities under the supervision of or for the benefit
of the actor. Commercial sexual activity is "services" in this
article. Nothing in this definition may be construed to
legitimize or legalize prostitution;
(xv) "Victim" means the person alleged to have been
subjected to human trafficking;
(xvi) "This act" means W.S. 6-2-701 through 6-2-710.