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The National Human Trafficking Hotline identified 152 cases in Tennessee in 2021, the most recent year data is available. More than 10,350 cases were identified across the country. More than ...
Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation. [1] Human trafficking can occur within a country or trans-nationally. It is distinct from people smuggling, which is characterized by the consent of the person being smuggled.
TAMPA, Fla. - Familial trafficking is an alarming trend that’s growing in many areas, including Hillsborough County, and it has law enforcement and advocates sounding the alarm on child sex ...
Terminology. Human trafficking is a form of slavery, involving the illegal smuggling and trading of people for forced labor or sexual exploitation. Trafficking is officially defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons by means of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, or abuse of power from a position ...
Signed into law by President Barack Obama on May 29, 2015. The Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015 ( S. 178, Pub. L. 114–22 (text) (PDF)) is an Act of Congress introduced in the Senate on January 13, 2015, and signed into law by United States President Barack Obama on May 29, 2015. [1] It is also known as the JVTA.
Allow children who are victims of human trafficking to testify in private. Give law enforcement increased access to the cell phone locations of people in immediate danger, such as in the case of a ...
Trafficking of children is a form of human trafficking and is defined by the United Nations as the "recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, and/or receipt" kidnapping of a child for the purpose of slavery, forced labour, and exploitation. [1] : . Article 3 (c) This definition is substantially wider than the same document's definition ...
The Rochdale child sex abuse ring involved underage teenage girls in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. Nine men were convicted of sex trafficking and other offences including rape, trafficking girls for sex and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child in May 2012. This resulted in Greater Manchester Police launching Operation ...