health counseling that addresses post-traumatic 
stress, depression, and sexual exploitation. 
(9) The average age of first exploitation 
through prostitution is 13. Seventy-five percent of 
minors exploited through prostitution have a pimp. 
A pimp can earn $200,000 per year prostituting 1 
sex trafficking victim. 
(10) Sex trafficking of minors is a complex and 
varied criminal problem that requires a multi-dis-
ciplinary, cooperative solution. Reducing trafficking 
will require the Government to address victims, 
pimps, and johns, and to provide training specific to 
sex trafficking for law enforcement officers and 
prosecutors, and child welfare, public health, and 
other social service providers. 
(11) Human trafficking is a criminal enterprise 
that imposes significant costs on the economy of the 
United States. Government and non-profit resources 
used to address trafficking include those of law en-
forcement, the judicial and penal systems, and social 
service providers. Without a range of appropriate 
treatments to help trafficking victims overcome the 
trauma they have experienced, victims will continue 
to be exploited by criminals and unable to support 
themselves, and will continue to require Government 
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resources, rather than being productive contributors 
to the legitimate economy. 
(12) Minor sex trafficking victims are under the 
age of 18. Because minors do not have the capacity 
to consent to their own commercial sexual exploi-
tation, minor sex trafficking victims should not be 
charged as criminal defendants. Instead, minor vic-
tims of sex trafficking should have access to treat-
ment and services to help them recover from their 
sexual exploitation, and should also be provided ac-
cess to appropriate compensation for harm they have 
suffered. 
(13) Several States have recently passed or are 
considering legislation that establishes a presump-
tion that a minor charged with a prostitution offense 
is a severely trafficked person and should instead be 
cared for through the child protection system. Some 
such legislation also provides support and services to 
minor sex trafficking victims who are under the age 
of 18 years old. These services include safe houses, 
crisis intervention programs, community-based pro-
grams, and law-enforcement training to help officers 
identify minor sex trafficking victims. 
(14) Sex trafficking of minors is not a problem 
that occurs only in urban settings. This crime also 
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exists in rural areas and on Indian reservations. Ef-
forts to address sex trafficking of minors should in-
clude partnerships with organizations that seek to 
address the needs of such underserved communities. 
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of the Congress that— 
(1) the Attorney General should implement 
changes to the National Crime Information Center 
database to ensure that— 
(A) a child entered into the database will 
be automatically designated as an endangered 
juvenile if the child has been reported missing 
not less than 3 times in a 1-year period; 
(B) the database is programmed to cross- 
reference newly entered reports with historical 
records already in the database; and 
(C) the database is programmed to include 
a visual cue on the record of a child designated 
as an endangered juvenile to assist law enforce-
ment officers in recognizing the child and pro-
viding the child with appropriate care and serv-
ices; 
(2) funds awarded under subpart 1 of part E 
of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3750 et seq.) (com-
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monly known as Byrne Grants) should be used to 
provide education, training, deterrence, and preven-
tion programs relating to sex trafficking of minors; 
(3) States should— 
(A) treat minor victims of sex trafficking 
as crime victims rather than as criminal defend-
ants or juvenile delinquents; 
(B) adopt laws that— 
(i) establish the presumption that a 
child under the age of 18 who is charged 
with a prostitution offense is a minor vic-
tim of sex trafficking; 
(ii) avoid the criminal charge of pros-
titution for such a child, and instead con-
sider such a child a victim of crime and 
provide the child with appropriate services 
and treatment; and 
(iii) strengthen criminal provisions 
prohibiting the purchasing of commercial 
sex acts, especially with minors; 
(C) amend State statutes and regula-
tions— 
(i) relating to crime victim compensa-
tion to make eligible for such compensation 
any individual who is a victim of sex traf-
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ficking as defined in section 1591(a) of 
title 18, United States Code, or a com-
parable State law against commercial sex-
ual exploitation of children, and who would 
otherwise be ineligible for such compensa-
tion due to participation in prostitution ac-
tivities because the individual is deter-
mined to have contributed to, consented to, 
benefitted from, or otherwise participated 
as a party to the crime for which the indi-
vidual is claiming injury; and 
(ii) relating to law enforcement re-
porting requirements to provide for excep-
tions to such requirements for victims of 
sex trafficking in the same manner as ex-
ceptions are provided to victims of domes-
tic violence or related crimes; and 
(4) demand for commercial sex with sex traf-
ficking victims must be deterred through consistent 
enforcement of criminal laws against purchasing 
commercial sex. 
SEC. 4. SEX TRAFFICKING BLOCK GRANTS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
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