CODE OF VIRGINIA

TAKING, DETAINING, ETC., PERSON FOR PROSTITUTION, ETC., OR CONSENTING THERETO;
HUMAN TRAFFICKING (§ 18.2-355)

Any person who:

   (1.  For purposes of prostitution or unlawful sexual intercourse, takes any
   person into, or persuades, encourages or causes any person to enter, a bawdy
   place, or takes or causes such person to be taken to any place against his or
   her will for such purposes; or

   (2.  Takes or detains a person against his or her will with the intent to
   compel such person, by force, threats, persuasions, menace or duress, to marry
   him or her or to marry any other person, or to be defiled; or

   (3.  Being parent, guardian, legal custodian or one standing in loco parentis
   of a person, consents to such person being taken or detained by any person for
   the purpose of prostitution or unlawful sexual intercourse; or

   (4.  For purposes of prostitution, takes any minor into, or persuades,
   encourages, or causes any minor to enter, a bawdy place, or takes or causes
   such person to be taken to any place for such purposes; is guilty of
   pandering.

A violation of subdivision (1), (2), or (3) is punishable as a Class 4 felony. A
violation of subdivision (4) is punishable as a Class 3 felony.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 18.1-204; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1980, c. 534;
1997, c. 555; 2014, cc. 649, 706; 2015, c. 395.