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What is sex trafficking?

I have found that many people are unaware of what sex trafficking really is. Here is a basic introduction to the enemy.

The formal explanation, as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act in 2000, is:
1) Sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion or in which the person induced to perform such an act is under 18, or
2) The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion, for the purpose of subjecting that person to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.

According to the Atlanta Mayor's Report of 2005, it is estimated that 200,000 to 300,000 children in the United States and an estimated 10 million children worldwide are involved in prostitution.  read more »