Criminal Code of Romania (2009) (excerpts related to Trafficking in Human Beings) (English)
THE CRIMINAL CODE
(updated 2004)
(excerpts)
The Special Part
Title I
Crimes and delicts against persons
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Chapter VI
Crimes and delicts against the freedom of persons
Trafficking in minors
Article 205 – (1)The act of recruiting, conveying, transferring, lodging or taking over a person aged 15 to 18 in order to exploit that person, shall be punished by strict imprisonmentfrom 3 to 12 years and the prohibition of certain rights.
(2) The penalty shall be severe detention from 15 to 20 years and the prohibition of certain rights, if:
a) the act has been committed against a person under the age of 15;
b) the act has been committed by threat, violence or other forms of coercion, by abduction, fraud or deceit, by abuse of authority or taking advantage of the minor’s inability for defence or to express will, or by giving, accepting or receiving money or other benefits to receive consent from the person having authority over the minor;
c) the act has been committed by two or more persons together;
d) the victim suffered serious injury of corporal integrity or health;
e) the act produced significant material benefits.
(3) If the act resulted in the victim’s death or suicide, the penalty shall be life detention or severe detention from 15 to 25 years and the prohibition of certain rights.
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Chapter VII
Crimes and delicts against sexual freedom
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Sexual intercourse with a minor
Article 218 – (1) Sexual intercourse, of any nature, with a person of the other sex or of the same sex, who has not reached the age of 15, shall be punished by strict imprisonment from 3 to 10 years and the prohibition of certain rights.
(2) This penalty shall also be applied to sanction sexual intercourse, of any nature, with a person of the opposite sex or of the same sex aged between 15 and 18 years, if the act is committed by the person’s tutor or guardian or by his or her supervisor, by the person in charge of his/her care, by the person’s physician, teacher, professor or educator, while taking advantage of his/her quality, or if the perpetrator has abused the victim’s confidence or his/her own authority or influence over the victim.
(3) If the sexual intercourse, of any nature, with a person of the opposite sex or of the same sex, who has not reached the age of 18, was determined by the perpetrator’s offering or giving the victim money or other benefits, directly or indirectly, the penalty shall be strict imprisonment from 3 to 12 years and the prohibition of certain rights.
(4) If the acts stipulated in para.(1)-(3) were committed to the purpose of producing pornographic material, the penalty shall be strict imprisonment from 5 to 15 years and the prohibition of certain rights, and if for the accomplishment of such a purpose coercion was used, the penalty shall be severe detention from 15 to 20 years and the prohibition of certain rights.
(5) When the deed in para.(1) has been committed in the circumstances provided in Art.217 para.(2) b) if the acts in para.(1)-(4) have had the consequences provided in Art.217 para.(2) e), the penalty shall be severe detention from 15 to 20 years and the prohibition of certain rights.
(6) If the act resulted in the victim’s death or suicide, the penalty shall be severe detention from 15 to 25 years and the prohibition of certain rights.
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Article 328
The deed of the person, who earns a living by sexual relations with different persons is punished by 3 months to 3 years of jail.
Article 329
Encouragement or constraint to prostitution, its facilitation or making profit out of it by a person, as well as recruitment of persons for prostitution or traffic of persons for prostitution are punished by 2 to 7 years of jail and interdiction of certain rights.
If the deed stipulated in paragraph 1 is committed against a minor or has another serious aspect, the punishment is 3 to 10 years of jail and interdiction of certain rights.
Money, values or any other goods that served or were destined to serve, directly or indirectly to the perpetration of the crime stipulated in paragraphs 1 and 2, and those acquired by its perpetration are confiscated, and if they are not found, the convict is obliged to cover their equivalent in money.
The attempt is punished.
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