Human trafficking is a crime involving the exploitation of someone for the purpose of compelled labor or a commercial sex act through the use of force, fraud, or coercion. Where a person younger than 18 is induced to perform a commercial sex act, it is a crime regardless of whether there is any force, fraud, or coercion.
- Sex Trafficking: The recruiting, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act in which the commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud or coercion or in which the person induced to perform such an act is under 18 years old.
- Labor Trafficking: The recruiting, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.
Resources
- Child Abuse Prevention Facilitator Map
- INEHCY - Homelessness & Human Trafficking
- INEHCY - UHY
- IN Attorney General Human Trafficking Webpage
- IPATH - The Indiana Protection for Abused and Trafficked Humans
- ITVAP - The Indiana Trafficking Victim Assistance Program
- Human Trafficking Quick Indicator Tool for Educators
- Sexual Predator Video
- Link to IDOE Moodle site to access Human Trafficking training