HUMAN TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN IN THE UNITED STATES
A FACT SHEET FOR SCHOOLS
What Is Human Trafficking?
Human trafficking is a serious federal crime with penalties of up to imprisonment for life.
Federal law defines “severe
forms of trafficking in persons”...
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HUMAN TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN IN THE UNITED STATES
A FACT SHEET FOR SCHOOLS
What Is Human Trafficking?
Human trafficking is a serious federal crime with penalties of up to imprisonment for life.
Federal law defines “severe
forms of trafficking in persons” as: “(A) sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or
coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age; or (B) the recruitment,
harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or
coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.
” [U.
S.
C.
§7102(8)] In
short, human trafficking is modern-day slavery.
What Is the Extent of Human Trafficking in the United States?
Contrary to a common assumption, human trafficking is not just a problem in other countries.
Cases of human trafficking
have been reported in all 50 states, Washington D.
C.
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