Human Trafficking in Detroit?

A Detroit woman has been arrested for hosting a prostitution party involving 19 prostitutes that also included nude dancing by two 16 year old girls, one of whom is the woman's daughter. Those attending the party had to pay a $15 cover charge in addition to what the prostitutes charged for sex. The woman was charged with Child Sexually Abusive Material. However, this may be a case of human trafficking.

This is the definition of human trafficking that is contained in the United States Trafficking Victims Protection Act 2000, as amended:

SEVERE FORMS OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS.-

The term "severe forms of trafficking in persons" means-

(A) sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced

by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced

to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age;

(B) 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 subjection to

involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.

Note that force, fraud or coercion are not required when the victim is younger than 18 years old.

As to the two 16 year old girls, this is a case of human trafficking for sexual exploitation. The woman received money in exchange for the two girls engaging in sexually explicit conduct, which is defined in the United States Criminal Code as the graphic lascivious exhibition of the genitals of any person, and may have prostituted the two girls as well.

Also, contrary to the widespread belief that a victim must be transported in order to be considered trafficked, it should be noted that the woman's daughter was not transported anywhere, she was exploited in her own home for money.

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