The issues affecting victims and their families of child trade. The process a victim goes through when seeking compensation and factors that may prevent individuals from reporting the crime. The primary myths associated with child sex trade.

1. HUMAN
TRAFFICKING
Child Sex Trade
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2. Introduction
• Define child sex trade and the scope
of the problem
• The issues affecting victims and their
families of child trade.
• The process a child sex trade victim
goes through when seeking
compensation and restitution from
his or her assailant
• Factors that may prevent individuals
from reporting and prosecuting child
sex trade
• The primary elements and myths
associated with child sex trade

3. Child Sex Trade
Child sex tourism is the commercial sexual exploitation of
children by men or women who travel from one place to
another, usually from a richer country to a poorer less-developed
country, to engage in sexual acts with children.
(Wallace & Roberson, 2011, Chapter 8).

4. Scope of the Problem
•According to some reports, Americans make up 38 percent of all sex tourists in
Cambodia and 80 percent in Costa Rica.
•The majority of American victims of commercial sexual exploitation tend to be
runaway or thrown away youths who live on the streets who become victims of
prostitution.
•It is not only the girls on the streets who are affected—for boys and
transgender youth, the average age of entry into prostitution is eleven to
thirteen years.
• In many developing countries the authorities decline to take any action
because of the economic benefit to the country.
•Child sex tourism is a dynamic and ever-shifting problem—it occurs where the
right circumstances combine. When one country accelerates action on the
issue, it may spread elsewhere.

5. The issues
affecting victims
and their families
of child sex trade

6. • Human and social costs of trafficking include:
• human rights violations
• social breakdown,
• organized crime,
• depriving countries of human capital
• public health problems,
• erosion of governmental authority.
• Victims are manipulated through the act or threat of violence
• Victims live in constant fear
• Each victim lives in a situation outside the rules of law.
• Child victims are unable to develop new relationships with
peers or adults other than the person who is victimizing them.
(Wallace & Roberson, 2011, Chapter 8).

7. The process a victim goes through when
seeking compensation and restitution
from his or her assailant

8. • Crime Victims Compensation
(The victim must cooperate
with law enforcement)
• Minors are not statutorily
immune from prosecution for
prostitution
• Buyers of commercial sex acts
may lie and claim they did not
know the victim was
underage
(Sharedhope International, 2015).

9. Arizona Law
Crime Classification Sentence Fine Asset
forfeiture
Sex Traffickiing Class 2 Felony 3 - 12.5 Years Max $150.000 No
Child Prostitution minor
under 15 Class 2 Felony 13 – 27 Years Max $150.000 No
Child Prostitution –
Defendant knew minor
was 15-17
Class 2 Felony 7 – 21 Years Max $150.000 No
Child Prostitution –
minor was 15-17
Class 6 Felony .33 – 2 Years Max $150.000 No
Sexual exploitation of a
minor –possessing child
pornography of victim
15 or older
Class 2 Felony 3 - 12.5 Years Max $150.000 Yes
(Sharedhope International, 2015).

10. Factors that may prevent
individuals from reporting and
prosecuting human trafficking

11. • Fear1
• Shame2
• Lack of awareness3
Lack of cooperation4

12. The primary elements and myths
associated with human trafficking-
child sex trade

13. Myth 1: Trafficked persons can only be foreign nationals or are only
immigrants from other countries.
Reality: The federal definition of human trafficking includes both U.S. citizens
and foreign nationals.
Myth 2: Human trafficking is another term for human smuggling.
Reality: Smuggling is a crime against a country’s borders: human trafficking is
a crime against a person.
Myth 3: Victims of human trafficking will immediately ask for help or
assistance and will self-identify as a victim of a crime.
Reality: Victims of human trafficking often do not immediately seek help or
self-identify as victims of a crime due to a variety of factors, including lack
of trust, self-blame, or specific instructions by the traffickers regarding
how to behave when talking to law enforcement or social services.
(National Human Trafficking Resource Center, 2015).

14. References
Sharedhope International. (2015). 2014 state report cards-Protected Innocence challenge. Retrieved from
http://sharedhope.org/PICframe4/reportcards/PIC_RC_2014_AZ.pdf
Wallace, H., & Roberson, C. (2011). Family violence: Legal, medical and social perspectives (6th ed.). Retrieved from
The University of Phoenix eBook Collection database
National Human Trafficking Resource Center. (2015). Myths & misconceptions. Retrieved from
http://www.traffickingresourcecenter.org/what-human-trafficking/myths-misconceptions