Non-Defenses to Trafficking In Persons

Evidence of the following facts or conditions shall not constitute a defense in a prosecution for violations of this article, nor shall such evidence preclude a finding of a violation: (a) a trafficking victim’s sexual history or history of commercial sexual activity, including any acts that may be covered by the rape shield law; (b) a trafficking victim’s connection by blood or marriage to a defendant in the case or to anyone involved in the victim’s trafficking; (c) consent of or permission by a trafficking victim or anyone else on the trafficking victim’s behalf to any commercial sex act or sexually explicit performance; (d) age of consent to sex, legal age of marriage, or other discretionary age; (e) mistake as to the victim’s age, even if the mistake is reasonable.