The terms Trafficking in persons and human trafficking are umbrella terms, according to the U.S. Department of State, that can be used when referring to the crimes of forcing adults or children to perform labor or engage in commercial sex.
Forced labor
Forced labor encompasses the acts, means, and purposes used by the traffickers:
The acts involve the trafficker recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a person for labor or services.
The means involves the trafficker using force, fraud, or physical or psychological coercion such as threats of force, withholding pay, confiscation of identity documents, use of addictive substances, and/or threats to significant other people.
The purpose involves the trafficker's focus on exploiting a person’s labor or services with no limit on the location or type of industry, such as agricultural fields, factories, restaurants, hotels, massage parlors, and so forth.
https://www.state.gov/what-is-trafficking-in-persons/
Domestic Servitude
Domestic servitude is a form of forced labor involving the victim performing domestic work, such as food preparation, cleaning, and other duties. This can be very dangerous to the victims because of the isolation from the outside world of friends and family and particularly lack of access to law enforcement.
Forced Child Labor
During forced child labor the trafficker compels children to work even when these children are legally able to work given their ages. Signs of forced child labor include a non-relative financially benefiting from work done by the child. It may also involve a lack of proper nourishment, rest, or schooling.
Sex Trafficking
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, sex trafficking is defined as the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for a commercial sex act 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. https://www.justice.gov/humantrafficking.
A recent story about the arrest of a sex trafficker In Brooklyn, NY.
Recently, Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Christie M. Curtis, Acting Assistant Director in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (FBI), announced the arrest and charges of sex trafficking and interstate prostitution against Ferron Facey. It is alleged that Facey, who has a history of violent threats, coerced two young women, including a 16-year-old girl, to come to NYC. He then proceeded to threaten them with violent acts if they did not perform sex acts as prostitutes. These acts were to be carried out at an open-air sex market in East New York, Brooklyn, known as the “Penn Track” or “Blade”. A search of Facey’s residence located an unloaded 9-millimeter handgun, with multiple rounds of ammunition in the air fryer in the kitchen and suspected cocaine spilled in the bathroom. If convicted of sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion Facey will face a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison.
It is alleged that Facey, who has a history of violent threats, coerced two young women, including a 16-year-old girl, to come to NYC. He then proceeded to threaten them with violent acts if they did not perform sex acts as prostitutes. These acts were to be carried out at an open-air sex market in East New York, Brooklyn, known as the “Penn Track” or “Blade”. The Penn Track is a stretch along Pennsylvania Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn known for prostitution and related criminal activities. Multiple sex traffickers who operate in this area have been arrested and jailed. The NYPD has identified over 400 pimps in this track.
A search of Facey’s residence located an unloaded 9-millimeter handgun, with multiple rounds of ammunition in the air fryer in the kitchen and suspected cocaine spilled in the bathroom.
If convicted of sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion Facey will face a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison.
https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2024/08/21/brooklyn-pimp-busted-for-sex-trafficking-at-notorious-penn-track/
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