The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) defines a human trafficking victim as a person induced to perform labor or a commercial sex act through force, fraud, or coercion. Any person under age 18 who performs a commercial sex act is considered a victim of human trafficking, regardless of whether force, fraud, or coercion was present.
It involves and act of recruiting, transporting, transferring haroring, or receiving a person through a use of force, fraud, or coersion.
Sex trafficking: the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provisions, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act, in which the commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud or coercion, or in which the person induced is induced to perform such act has not obtained 18 years of age.
Labor trafficking: the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provisions 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.
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