Sex Trafficking Is As Serious Crime And An Act Of...

Sex Trafficking in Minors Umar Cheema CUNY- John Jay Human trafficking the modern day slavery; is as serious crime and an act of violation of human rights. The United Nations (UN) defines human trafficking as; the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, the abuse of power or a position of vulnerability or the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person or for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation includes, at a minimum, the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or†¦show more content†¦Sex trafficking consists of the entrapment of an individual for the purpose of a commercial sex act or a sex act that occurs in exchange for anything of value (Kotrla, 2010). According to Gozdziak and MacDonnell (2007) sex trafficking is currently the most rapidly expanding form of global cri minal activity and 50% of the victims are children (Kotrla, 2010). Around the world, an estimated 100,000 children are victims of sex trafficking annually (Potocky, 2010). Sex Trafficking derives entirely from the international realm of the trafficking industry, there are no set rules or detailed processes known by which children in the world are sold for the purpose of sex trafficking. Many times in our life we have heard that necessity is the mother of invention, one of the many ways to understand why sex trafficking exists around the world is in terms of supply and demand principles. One should recognize that the process of trafficking of thousands of children for sexual exploitation would not exist if the demand for them was not present. Mark Lagon (2008), former director of the U.S. office to monitor and combat trafficking in Persons has suggested that this demand can be understood from the perspective of traffickers who are driven by greed and monetarily incentives and the consumers who are driven by sexual desires. Lagon (2008) asserted that the traffickers are motivated by money; a