I 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5575 
To establish a grant program to benefit domestic minor victims of sex 
trafficking, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 23, 2010 
Mrs. MALONEY (for herself, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. BLUMENAUER, 
Mr. COHEN, Mr. POE of Texas, Ms. RICHARDSON, and Mr. WU) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Ju-
diciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a pe-
riod to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for con-
sideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To establish a grant program to benefit domestic minor 
victims of sex trafficking, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Domestic Minor Sex 
Trafficking Deterrence and Victims Support Act of 
2010’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Human trafficking is modern-day slavery. It 
is one of the fastest-growing, and the second largest, 
criminal enterprise in the world. Human trafficking 
generates an estimated profit of $32,000,000,000 
per year, world wide. 
(2) In the United States, human trafficking is 
an increasing problem. This criminal enterprise vic-
timizes individuals in the United States, many of 
them children, who are forced into prostitution, and 
foreigners brought into the country, often under 
false pretenses, who are coerced into forced labor or 
commercial sexual exploitation. 
(3) Sex trafficking is one of the most lucrative 
areas of human trafficking. Criminal gang members 
in the United States are increasingly involved in re-
cruiting young women and girls into sex trafficking. 
Interviews with gang members indicate that the 
gang members regard working as an individual who 
solicits customers for a prostitute (commonly known 
as a ‘‘pimp’’) to being as lucrative as trafficking in 
drugs, but with a much lower chance of being crimi-
nally convicted. 
(4) National Incidence Studies of Missing, Ab-
ducted, Runaway and Throwaway Children, the de-
finitive study of episodes of missing children, found 
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that of the children who are victims of non-family 
abduction, runaway or throwaway children, the po-
lice are alerted by family or guardians in only 21 
percent of the cases. In 79 percent of cases there is 
no report and no police involvement, and therefore 
no official attempt to find the child. 
(5) In 2007, the Administration of Children 
and Families, Department of Health and Human 
Services, reported to the Federal Government 
265,000 cases of serious physical, sexual, or psycho-
logical abuse of children. 
(6) Experts estimate that each year at least 
100,000 children in the United States are exploited 
through prostitution. 
(7) Children who have run away from home are 
at a high risk of becoming exploited through sex 
trafficking. Children who have run away multiple 
times are at much higher risk of not returning home 
and of engaging in prostitution. 
(8) The vast majority of children involved in sex 
trafficking have suffered previous sexual or physical 
abuse, live in poverty, or have no stable home or 
family life. These children require a comprehensive 
framework of specialized treatment and mental 
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