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31-34-1-3.5. Victim of human or sexual trafficking

IN Code § 31-34-1-3.5 (2019) (N/A)
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Sec. 3.5. (a) A child is a child in need of services if, before the child becomes eighteen (18) years of age:

(1) the child is the victim of:

(A) human or sexual trafficking (as defined in IC 31-9-2-133.1); or

(B) a human or sexual trafficking offense under the law of another jurisdiction, including federal law, that is substantially equivalent to the act described in clause (A); and

(2) the child needs care, treatment, or rehabilitation that:

(A) the child is not receiving; and

(B) is unlikely to be provided or accepted without the coercive intervention of the court.

(b) A child is considered a victim of human or sexual trafficking regardless of whether the child consented to the conduct described in subsection (a)(1).

As added by P.L.46-2016, SEC.8.

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