What counts as trafficking?

[LittleBigFoot]

Just like the title, what is considered actual trafficking and does it actually matter to know whether you were or not?

Spoiler: Example Given

Think like 9 ish year old being shared sexually with multiple friends of parents repeatedly.

 

[internal]

according to the action -> means -> purpose (AMP) model, trafficking requires two things (not always simultaneously): movement, and commerciality.

commerciality is defined as any thing that is of value that is exchanged between any person (food, shelter, jewelry, money, gifts) and movement is that the person is moved somewhere (typically across state/provincial lines but it can involve countres as well.)

in the united states federal code trafficking occurs at any time if a minor is involved in soliciting commercial sex acts, so this could fall under the defenition of trafficking if commerciality is a factor.

 

[LittleBigFoot]

movement is that the person is moved somewhere

So if it stayed in house in just like these get together things I could say I definitely wasn’t right?

 

[internal]

So if it stayed in house in just like these get together things I could say I definitely wasn’t right?

it depends on whether or not you or others involved receved things of value in commission of the crime (other than sex).

 

[LittleBigFoot]

I don’t know.

 

[internal]

I don’t know.

then you cannot say you definitely weren't.

 

[somerandomguy]

Like the term "rape," the term "trafficking" has a legal definition and a ... I can't think of the word. Basically the meaning everyone uses outside of the legal definition.

The extralegal meaning of trafficking means one was passed around for sex, whether for commercial gain or not.

 

[LittleBigFoot]

The extralegal meaning of trafficking means one was passed around for sex, whether for commercial gain or not.

I’m not sure what I feel about this part. Doesn’t that make something as simple as an orgy be trafficking? I’m not sure it would be this broad of a definition.

 

[internal]

I can't think of the word.

colloquial.

 

[internal]

Doesn’t that make something as simple as an orgy be trafficking?

an orgy is generally understood to be consensual. even colloquially, trafficking would require that one or more of the participents is being coerced.

 

[Sideways]

'Child exploitation' is the phrase that comes to mind, in a CSA context. Child sexual exploitation.

 

[LittleBigFoot]

So then does a gang rape count as trafficking or is that it’s own thing? Because that’s essentially a non consensual orgy.