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Human Trafficking

Her name is Jessie,
Have you seen her?




What every family worldwide needs to know about human trafficking.

Two Main Types of Trafficking

According to the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, the different types of trafficking are

  • Sex trafficking: In which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion or in which the person induced to perform a sex act is not yet 18 years of age (child sex trafficking).
  • Labor trafficking: Recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a person for labor or services, through using force, fraud, or coercion. The person is subjected to involuntary servitude, debt bondage, peonage, or slavery.
There are three common elements to trafficking cases on which both international and federal definitions agree:
Process - the victim is recruited, transferred, harbored, obtained, or moved by a trafficker.
Means - the trafficker uses force, fraud, coercion, abduction, threat, deception, or the abuse of power to gain control over the victim.
End - the victim is exploited for forced labor, involuntary servitude, slavery, debt bondage, or commercial sex acts.

Smuggling vs. Trafficking

Trafficking and smuggling are two different crimes, and law enforcement regards trafficked persons and smuggled persons in different ways.

Trafficking involves:

An element of coercion. A person cannot consent to enslavement.
A restriction of movement, withholding documents, providing low or no pay, etc.
Crime or violation against a person.
Subsequent exploitation and/or forced labor.
Trafficked persons are seen as victims by the law.
Smuggling involves:
Unauthorized border crossings.
No coercion.
Facilitated illegal entry of person from one country to another.
Smuggled persons are seen as criminals by the law.

It is important to distinguish between trafficking and smuggling, in order to identify those who are trafficking victims and to provide appropriate services.

Some Questions to Consider

If you are a service provider, the Safe Horizon Anti-Trafficking Program recommends that you incorporate the following questions into your client assessment. Answers to these questions can reveal whether or not your client may be a victim of trafficking. These questions alone will by no means serve as a comprehensive assessment of a trafficking case. Please contact Safe Horizon's Anti-Trafficking Program for assistance.

Did the person come to the United States for a specific job or other purpose?
Upon arrival, was the person forced to do different work than what he/she was promised?
Does the person have access to his/her personal documents, identification papers, etc.?
Does the person owe money to the employer?
Can the person leave his/her present situation?
Has the person been threatened with harm or deportation if he/she tries to leave?
Have family members been threatened?
Is the person's freedom restricted in any other way?


Your children could be recruited by people who seemingly have good intentions, but they end up with people where they are never seen again. These criminals are good at what they do, and the law has a hard time tracking down those who fall victim to it. Above is Jessies pictures, normally blonde, however, it is imperative that we keep an eye out for her and others that have gone missing. With so many being trafficked every year, they could be right under our noses every day. This problem is increasing in rate year by year, and now is #2 on the list of criminal activities. I will post more pictures and keep this page updated as more are missing. Glendene ( her mother) has been looking for her since 2006, it is time that we find her, and with your help and eyes aware of this criminal activity in this country and others, we can help stop human trafficking.

  

 

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