GET THE FACTS: What Is Sex Trafficking?
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Domestic Sex Trafficking (DST) is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person over the age of 18 for sex in which the victim has sexual intercourse or performs sexual acts in exchange for money.
Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking(DMST) involves all teenagers and children under the age of 18 who are being manipulated or coerced into acts of sexual exploitation. Under federal law DMST is often referred to as CSEC or Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children. This is a child who has received food, drugs, money or shelter in exchange for sex. Who is the victim? Any person who engages in commercial sex acts, regardless of the use of force, fraud or coercion, is a victim of human sex trafficking, even if they appear to consent to the commercial sex act. |
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Who is the Trafficker?
Just as there is no one type of victim, there is no one type of trafficker. Traffickers can be labeled as pimps but are often family members, peers, intimate partners, business owners, or even trusted people in positions of authority. |
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What's Being Done In Georgia?
The State of Georgia has some of the strongest laws to help convict traffickers. The legal language includes the terminology of pimping, pandering, soliciting or arranging, which covers all types of traffickers or those involved in trafficking.
Here are some of Georgia's Laws:
O.C.G.A. 16-5-46. Trafficking for sexual servitude.
O.C.G.A. § 16-6-11 Pimping
O.C.G.A. § 16-6-12 Pandering
O.C.G.A. § 16-6-14 Pandering by compulsion
O.C.G.A. § 16-6-15 Solicitation
Here are some of Georgia's Laws:
O.C.G.A. 16-5-46. Trafficking for sexual servitude.
O.C.G.A. § 16-6-11 Pimping
O.C.G.A. § 16-6-12 Pandering
O.C.G.A. § 16-6-14 Pandering by compulsion
O.C.G.A. § 16-6-15 Solicitation
Legislative Updates
Governor Kemp Signs The Debbie Vance Act
June 29, 2020
Atlanta, GA – Governor Brian P. Kemp today signed SB 435 to help restore survivors of sex trafficking with Vacatur and Record Expungement. Survivors of human trafficking can petition the courts to vacate convictions for crimes committed while they were being trafficked.
Governor Kemp Signs Foster Care and Anti-Human Trafficking Legislation
JULY 21, 2020
Atlanta, GA – Governor Brian P. Kemp today signed HB 823 to crack down on human trafficking in Georgia. House Bill 823 provides that a person who knowingly uses a commercial motor vehicle in the commission of sexual or labor trafficking crimes will be disqualified as a commercial motor vehicle driver for life.
June 29, 2020
Atlanta, GA – Governor Brian P. Kemp today signed SB 435 to help restore survivors of sex trafficking with Vacatur and Record Expungement. Survivors of human trafficking can petition the courts to vacate convictions for crimes committed while they were being trafficked.
Governor Kemp Signs Foster Care and Anti-Human Trafficking Legislation
JULY 21, 2020
Atlanta, GA – Governor Brian P. Kemp today signed HB 823 to crack down on human trafficking in Georgia. House Bill 823 provides that a person who knowingly uses a commercial motor vehicle in the commission of sexual or labor trafficking crimes will be disqualified as a commercial motor vehicle driver for life.
