Sex Trafficking: Modern-day Slavery

Sex trafficking according to the National Human Trafficking (2000) is defined as a modern-day form of slavery in which a commercial sex act in induced by force, fraud or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act is under the age of 18 years. Sex trafficking is mostly comprises of force, fraud and underage women or men to engaged in unwilling activities in order to get what they need in life. Most often people are brought to the United State specifically in search of job but little would they know that they have fallen into sex trafficking. Such activities generally tarnishes the image of the community where such practice is condone and moreover gives the people a bad image related to sexually transmitted diseases like HIV/AIDS. These organized crime groups (sex Traffickers) may be highly structured organizations, run by a hierarchy of individuals and groups, with many key players, or decentralized and less organized small groups of individual who get together for a “business venture” with no central leader.

In the sex trafficking, there are various components that forms the basis of race as a particular group of people are by nature induced by force, fraud or any other means to engage in such activity. For example most victims of sex trafficking, according to UN, are reported from Asia or Africa who are seeking greener pastures in foreign lands such as the United Kingdom and the United States. Immigrant workers who do not have the required documentation to work in a particular country are sometimes force or defrauded in sex trafficking with the fear of being deported back into their own country. Such victims normally accept such conditions to work, due to their need of survival, resulting in the exploitati...

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should include specific contact information for federal agencies and departments that investigate trafficking and prosecute traffickers. Lastly, Penalties must fit the crime. Sentencing guidelines should reflect the seriousness of the crime. Evidentiary standards need to change. Currently, prosecution of traffickers depends on testimony from victim witnesses. Videotapes or wiretaps should be allowed as evidence. When the above structure are put in place, the dynamism of sex trafficking can be change once and for all.

To change in the dynamics of sex trafficking there should be national anti-trafficking plan that recommends prevention, protection for victims and prosecution of traffickers. If there is no plan that recommend protection and prosecution of offender, sex trafficking will still be an issue to battle with from generation to generation.