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  • PART IV CRIMES, PUNISHMENTS AND PROCEEDINGSIN CRIMINAL CASES
    (Chapters 263 through 280)
  • TITLE I CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
  • CHAPTER 265 CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON
  • Section 57 Victim of human trafficking as affirmative defense to charges of common night walking or common streetwalking

[ Text of section added by 2011, 178, Sec. 23 effective February 19, 2012.]

  Section 57. In any prosecution or juvenile delinquency proceeding of a person who is a human trafficking victim, as defined by section 20M of chapter 233, it shall be an affirmative defense to charges of engaging in common night walking or common streetwalking in violation of section 53 of chapter 272 and to a violation of section 53A of said chapter 272 that, while a human trafficking victim, such person was under duress or coerced into committing the offenses for which such person is being prosecuted or against whom juvenile delinquency proceedings have commenced.