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Human Trafficking 101 – TRUST AZ

6-8 minutes

TRUST was founded to bring collaborative

engagement on issues involving Human Trafficking.

Working together across Arizona

Sadly, some victims are trafficked by family members while others

are initiated into “the life” through an older boyfriend or girlfriend

who forces them to perform sex acts for personal profit. These

victims often have a difficult early life including poverty, child

maltreatment, domestic violence or substance use in the home

which places them at risk for being trafficked.

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Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) defined

Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) sometimes

referred to as domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST), occurs when

U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident minors (under the age of

18) are commercially sexually exploited.

Children can be commercially sexually exploited through

prostitution, pornography, stripping, sex tourism, erotic

entertainment or other sexual acts.

The commercial aspect of the sexual exploitation is critical to

separating the crime of sex trafficking from sexual assault,

molestation or rape. The term “commercial sex act” is the giving or

receiving of anything of value (money, drugs, shelter, food, clothes,

etc.) to any person in exchange for a sex act.

An Overview and Introduction to Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking defined

Under U.S. federal law, “severe forms of trafficking in persons”

includes both sex trafficking and labor trafficking:

Sex trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation,

provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the

purposes of a commercial sex act, in which the commercial sex act

is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person

induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age

(22 USC § 7102).

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Labor trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation,

provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the

use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purposes of subjection to

involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery, (22 USC

§ 7102).

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Human trafficking is a business, and for any business to

survive, it requires supply and demand

In this case, there appears to be a growing demand fueled by easy

access through the internet, and a ready supply of victims that are

constantly being recruited and exploited.

Sadly, some victims are trafficked by family members, some end up

selling sex as a means to support drug use, while others are

initiated into “the life” through an older boyfriend or girlfriend who

forces them to perform sex acts for personal profit. These victims

often have a difficult early life including poverty, child maltreatment,

domestic violence or substance use in the home which places them

at risk for being trafficked.

Successful prosecution of traffickers is a long and complicated

process for law enforcement. It is very difficult to get victims to

testify against their traffickers. Victims are often scared and fear

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retaliation.

What is the community in Arizona doing?

Arizona has a large network of organizations and groups who are

fighting human trafficking – through innovative law enforcement

efforts, demand reduction, victim services, research institutions,

and prevention efforts.

Over the last few years, community awareness regarding trafficking

has increased substantially, highlighting a need for a more

coordinated and integrated response. There are many distinct

groups in Arizona working independently and collaboratively on the

issue.

Through the continued coordination of efforts, new and sustainable

resources can be developed, and laws can be adopted to facilitate

arrests, prosecute the buyers and traffickers, and prioritize the

identification and protection of those involved in human trafficking,

Backpage.com was likely the largest internet source for advertising

underage sex trafficking in Arizona

While the list of internet sources where sex can be advertised and

purchased is ever-changing, nearly 80 percent of the ads that were

posted as ‘adult services’ on Backpage.com were actually for the

sale of sex.

On April 6, 2018 federal authorities seized Backpage.com while

simultaneously raiding the site founders’ homes in Arizona. The

founders Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin have been charged with

conspiring to knowingly facilitate prostitution offenses through the

website. Authorities contend some of the trafficked people included

teenage girls.

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