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53C Causing another person to provide commercial sexual services in circumstances involving sexual servitude

(1)A person (A) commits an offence if—

(a)A causes or induces another person (B) to provide, or to continue to provide, commercial sexual services; and

(b)B is not free to stop providing those services, or to leave the place or area where B provides those services, because A or another person (C)—

(i)uses force against B or another person (D); or

(ii)makes a threat to, or against, B or D; or

(iii)unlawfully detains B or D; or

(iv)engages in fraud or misrepresentation (including by omission) in relation to B or D; or

(v)uses a manifestly excessive debt owed, or purportedly owed, by B or D; and

(c)A knows that engaging in the conduct referred to in paragraph (b) will, or probably will, cause B—

(i)to provide, or to continue to provide, commercial sexual services; or

(ii)to not be free to leave the place or area where B provides commercial sexual services.

(2)A person who commits an offence against subsection (1) is liable to level 4 imprisonment (15 years maximum).