They additionally utilize individual understudies to enroll different young ladies at schools and after-school programs Kid victims are just valuable in the sex business for a brief time and when they are finish with them they may set them free or kill them.
Current Law and Statistics on Sex Trafficking in October 2000, Congress enacted the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA). Prior to this, no comprehensive federal law existed to protect victims of trafficking or to prosecute their traffickers. This often made efforts to combat trafficking inconsistent and ineffective. The TVPA’s most important provision is the definition of “severe forms of trafficking in persons,” which had previously been an area of much confusion. Under the TVPA severe forms of trafficking include Sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not
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(22 USC 7102 § 103 (8)(A)(B)). This definition clarifies several things regarding sex trafficking of minors: that any child under the age of 18 engaged in the sex industry is considered to be “trafficked,” even if the trafficker did not employ force, fraud, or coercion; that transportation of a victim for participation in the sex industry is not a necessary element of trafficking; and that crossing of international (or state) borders is not a necessary element of the crime either. Most people do not understand that trafficking is a global problem with local implications. Human trafficking has been reported in all 50 of the United States, Washington D.C., and the U.S. territories. Victims