About a dozen such offenders have been convicted since the law was passed in 1994. While not enough, this is a step forward. Preventive actions are urgent. For example U.S. based airlines must join some European ones, in warning on their flights that child prostitution abroad is a crime. Congress defeated a bill in support of this measure.
Global businesses tend to be ethically blind.
They are too far away from the people at the source of their profits. The transnational nature of business should have a parallel in international law and its enforcement. But U.S. political leaders resist the development of international law and oppose an International Criminal Court. The United Nations has classified prostitution as a new form of slavery. Children from poor communities are among the new slaves of global economic expansion, and peoples have to suffer new forms of humiliation.