Human Trafficking Definition

• Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery
• Victims of trafficking exploited for commercial sex or labor purposes
• Traffickers use force, fraud or coercion to achieve exploitation

Sex Trafficking: Commercial sex act induced by force, fraud or coercion, or in which person performing the act is under age 18.

• Victims can be found working in massage parlors, brothels, strip clubs, escort services

Labor Trafficking: Using force, fraud or coercion to recruit, harbor, transport, obtain or employ a person for labor or services in involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage or slavery

• Victims can be found in domestic situations as nannies or maids, sweatshop factories, janitorial jobs, construction sites, farm work, restaurants, panhandling

Force, fraud and coercion are methods used by traffickers to press victims into lives of servitude, abuse

• Force: Rape, beatings, constraint, confinement
• Fraud: Includes false and deceptive offers of employment, marriage, better life
• Coercion: Threats of serious harm to, or physical restraint of, any person; any scheme, plan or pattern intended to cause victims to believe that failure to perform an act would result in restraint against them; or the abuse or threatened abuse of the legal process.