human trafficking
Human trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation,
provision, or obtaining of a person for the purposes of a
commercial sex act, labor or services, in which the act, labor or
service is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the
person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of
age. (TVPA of 2000)
Domestic trafficking in the US is when someone who is considered
a US citizen is being exploited in the United States for commercial
sex or forced labor through the use of force, fraud, or coercion.
(THM definition)