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Commentary: COVID raises the risk of child exploitation
Katie Olse, For the Express-News
Jan. 28, 2021
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Children and youth are also spending more time online, which can make them more accessible to traffickers who target them there.Eva Marie Uzcategui /Bloomberg
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced too many tragedies to tally, but here is one that does not get talked about enough: It has worsened conditions that leave children and youth especially vulnerable to commercial sexual exploitation, a human trafficking crime.
Human trafficking happens when a trafficker uses force, fraud or coercion to compel a person into providing labor, services or commercial sexual acts against his or her will. When a minor is trafficked for commercial sex, it is considered a human trafficking crime, regardless of the presence of force, fraud or coercion. When a trafficker receives anything of monetary value in exchange for sexual contact with a minor, that minor has been trafficked. Most minors are trafficked by people they know.