{"id":2383,"date":"2021-01-25T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/co4kids.org\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2023-10-13T12:16:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T18:16:18","slug":"what-colorado-communities-should-know-about-child-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co4kids.org\/es\/community-blog\/what-colorado-communities-should-know-about-child-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"What Colorado communities should know about child trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What Colorado communities should know about child trafficking<\/h1><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Child sex and child labor trafficking are child abuse. As with any other form of child abuse,\u00a0child trafficking\u00a0<\/a>does not discriminate. It can happen in any community and can affect children of every age, gender, race, ethnicity and socioeconomic background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is child trafficking? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are two types of human trafficking that can impact children and families – sex trafficking and labor trafficking. A child may experience one or both of these forms of abuse. The most pervasive myth about human trafficking is that it often involves kidnapping or physically forcing someone into a situation. In reality, most traffickers are known to the family and use psychological means, such as tricking, defrauding, manipulating or threatening victims, into providing commercial sex or exploitative labor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A study analyzing press releases and online media reports from over a nine-year period found that fewer than 10 percent of child trafficking cases involved kidnapping<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Child sex trafficking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The primary difference between adult sex trafficking and child sex trafficking is age. Children are protected under law and are not considered capable of consenting to exploitative sex or sex acts. Unlike child sex trafficking, cases of adult sex trafficking must involve elements of force, fraud and coercion. Child sex trafficking occurs anytime<\/em><\/strong> a child performs a sexual act in exchange for something of value (money, housing, drugs, etc.), even in the absence of force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Action Means Purpose Model (AMP) <\/a>describes the definition of human trafficking in the United States, as outlined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Child labor trafficking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Unlike child sex trafficking, child labor trafficking does require the elements of force, fraud and coerocion for the purposes of compelled labor. Child labor trafficking can take many forms, the most common being debt bondage and forced labor. Debt bondage or bonded labor happens when a child incurs a debt – real or fake – that he or she is never able to pay off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forced labor\/involuntary servitude occurs when an employer or individual obtains labor or services through force, threats of force, abuse of the legal process, fraud and\/or blackmail. Examples of labor\/involuntary servitude include children found to be forced to<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n