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SexMusical t1_j760bzf wrote

Reply to comment by UpgrayeddSmurphy in Snowboarders sue ex-coach, federation, USOPC for sex trafficking. by PrincessBananas85

That seems to be a stretch of the legal boundaries around trafficking.

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NotLucasDavenport t1_j766mpo wrote

It’s a common misconception that trafficking has to do with movement. It’s one part of one kind of trafficking but not the only thing. Per the official government website:

Neither U.S. law nor international law requires that a trafficker or victim move across a border for a human trafficking offense to take place.  Trafficking in persons is a crime of exploitation and coercion, and not movement.  Traffickers can use schemes that take victims hundreds of miles away from their homes or exploit them in the same neighborhoods where they were born.

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djpresstone t1_j76c934 wrote

From childwelfare.gov:

> [Trafficking is] the exploitation of people through force, coercion, threat, and deception and includes human rights abuses such as debt bondage, deprivation of liberty, and lack of control over freedom and labor

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MVieno t1_j77o27f wrote

They were bound to be stuck in traffic at some point.

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UpgrayeddSmurphy t1_j7bcwon wrote

If it goes towards charging this piece of shit with more felonies, and dissuades other pieces of shit from seeking this type of work to exploit more victims:

"Meh, I'll allow it."

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