Article 169. Pimping
Whoever promotes the prostitution of persons of either sex or induces or maintains them in prostitution or recruits them for that purpose shall be punished by imprisonment for two to five years. The same penalty shall be
impose on anyone who holds another person in sexual servitude
Article 170. Aggravated pimping
The penalty shall be four to ten years imprisonment when one of the actions provided for in the previous article is carried out and one of the following circumstances occurs:
1) The victim is under eighteen years of age.
2) There is deception, violence, abuse of authority, a situation of need of the victim or any means of intimidation or coercion.
3) The perpetrator is an ascendant, descendant, sister or brother of the victim.
4) The perpetrator is an uncle, aunt, niece, nephew, cousin or cousin of the victim.
5) The perpetrator is a stepmother, stepfather, half-sister or half-brother of the victim.
6) The perpetrator is a guardian, or in charge of the education, custody or care of the victim.
7) The perpetrator carries out the conduct against one of the relatives of the victim's spouse or partner, indicated in points 3) and 4) above.
8) The perpetrator takes advantage of his/her relationship of trust with the victim or his/her family, whether or not there is a family relationship.
Article 171. Coerced pimping
Whoever coerces a person into prostitution, even partially, by exploiting the proceeds of that activity, shall be punished by imprisonment of two to eight years.
The penalty shall be:
1) Prison from four to ten years, if the offended person is under thirteen years of age.
2) Prison from three to nine years, if the offended person is older than thirteen, but younger than eighteen.
Article 172. Trafficking in human beings
Anyone who, by using technology or any other means, by means of the threat, use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power, a situation of vulnerability, or the granting or receipt of payments or benefits to obtain the consent of a person having authority over another, promotes, facilitates, favours or executes the recruitment or transfer, shall be punished by imprisonment for six to ten years, the transportation, harbouring, concealment, holding, delivering or receiving of one or more persons within or outside the country for the purpose of forced labour or services and other forms of labour exploitation, servitude, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servile or forced marriage, illegal adoption, forced begging, forced pregnancy and forced abortion, and the carrying out of any form of sexual exploitation.
The penalty shall be imprisonment from eight to sixteen years, if, in addition, any of the following circumstances apply
a) The victim is under eighteen years of age, an adult or a disabled person.
b) The perpetrator is the spouse, partner or relative of the victim up to the third degree of consanguinity or affinity.
c) The perpetrator takes advantage of his relationship of authority or trust with the victim or his family, whether or not there is a family relationship.
d) The perpetrator takes advantage of the exercise of his profession or of the role he plays.
e) The victim suffers serious damage to his/her health, death or death by suicide as a consequence of the action of trafficking in persons described above.
(f) The punishable act has been committed by a criminal group composed of two or more members.
Whoever promotes, facilitates, favours or executes the recruitment, transfer, transport, accommodation, concealment, retention, delivery or reception of one or more persons within or outside the country, for the illicit extraction or transplantation of human organs, tissues, cells or fluids, shall be punished with the penalty indicated in the first paragraph of this Article.
In the case of minors, the methods of execution described in the first paragraph of this Article need not be used to establish the offence.
Article 175 bis. Sanction to owners, lessors, administrators or owners of establishments
The owner, lessor, possessor or administrator of an establishment or place that destines or benefits from trafficking in persons, the smuggling of migrants or their related activities shall be punished with imprisonment of between three and five years.
Article 189 bis. Forced labour or services
Whoever induces, maintains or subjects one or more persons to perform work or services under force, deception, coercion or threat shall be punished by imprisonment for six to ten years.
The penalty shall be imprisonment from eight to sixteen years if the victim is under eighteen years of age or in a vulnerable or disabled situation.
In no case shall the consent given by the victim exempt him/her from criminal liability.
Article 192. Deprivation of liberty
The penalty of imprisonment will be from four to ten years when another is deprived of his personal freedom, if any of the following circumstances:
1) When the victim is a person under the age of eighteen
Of age or is in a situation of vulnerability or disability.
2) By coercion, deception or violence.
3) Against the spouse, cohabiting partner or relative up to the third degree of consanguinity or affinity, or a public official.
4) When it lasts more than twenty-four hours.
5) When the author prevails of his relation of authority or trust with the victim or his family, it mediates or not relation of kinship.
6) When the author takes advantage of the exercise of his profession or the role it performs.
Article 192 bis. Abduction of the minor or disabled person
It will be repressed with imprisonment of ten to fifteen years, who deprives a person under age or with cognitive or physical disability, of the power of their parents, guardians, curators, tutors or persons in charge. The penalty shall be from twenty to twenty-five years' imprisonment, if the victim is subjected to serious or very serious injuries, and from thirty-five to fifty years in prison if he dies.
When parents, guardians, guardians, guardians or persons in charge who remove or retain a minor, disabled person or person with no capacity to resist, shall be punished with imprisonment of twenty to twenty-five years.
Article 193. Coercion
He will be punished with a prison sentence of three to five years, who by serious threat or physical or moral violence compels a person to do, not do or tolerate something that is not bound.
Article 376. Trafficking of minors
It shall be punished with imprisonment from eight to sixteen years, who promotes, facilitates or favors the sale, for any purpose, of a person under age and therefore receives any kind of payment, reward, financial reward or otherwise. The same penalty shall be imposed on anyone who pays, gratifies or rewards in order to purchase the minor.
The prison shall be from ten to twenty years, when the author is an ascendant or relative up to the third degree of consanguinity or affinity, custodian, custodian or any person who exercises the representation of the person under age. The same penalty shall be imposed on the professional or public official who sells, promotes, facilitates or legitimizes, through any act, the sale of the minor.
The professional and public official shall also be imposed on the duration of the maximum sentence for the exercise of the profession or office in which the event occurred.
Article 377 bis. Illicit trafficking in human organs, tissues and / or fluids
A prison sentence of eight to sixteen years shall be punishable by the possession, transportation, sale or illicit purchase of organs, tissues and / or human fluids.
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Article 5. Concept of trafficking
Trafficking in persons shall mean the promotion, facilitate or promote the entry or leave the country or movement within the national territory, of persons of either sex for one or more events prostitution or subject them to exploitation or servitude, either sexual or labor, slavery or practices similar to slavery, forced labor or services, marriage servile, forced begging, illegal logging illegal adoption or organ.
Article 7 Definitions
For the purposes of this Act are defined as follows:
j ) Slavery : status and social status in which a person is lacking freedom and rights by being subjected so absolute to the will and dominion of other.
Article 172. Trafficking in persons
A person shall be punished with imprisonment for six to ten years, who promotes, facilitates or favors the entry or exit of the country, or the movement within the national territory, of persons of any sex to perform one Or acts of prostitution or exploitation, sexual or labor bondage, slavery or practices similar to slavery, forced labor or services, servile marriage, begging, unlawful removal of organs or unlawful adoption. The penalty of imprisonment shall be from eight to sixteen years, if one of the following circumstances also occurs:
- a) The victim is under eighteen years of age or is in a situation of vulnerability or disability.
- b) Deception, violence or any means of intimidation or coercion.
- c) The author is a spouse, partner or relative of the victim up to the third degree of consanguinity or affinity.
- d) The author prevails over his relationship of authority or trust with the victim or his family, whether or not the relationship is related.
- e) The author takes advantage of the exercise of his profession or the role it performs.
- f) The victim suffers serious damage to his health.
- g) The offense is committed by a criminal group composed of two or more members.
(As amended by article 19 of the Law on Protection of Victims, Witnesses and other participants in Criminal Procedure No. 8720 of March 4, 2009.)
Article 192.- Imprisonment exacerbated
The term shall be four to ten years when it deprives another of his liberty personal.
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