if you visited a 'trafficked' girl

[Ebony Amber]

Does anybody actually know what the legal definition of trafficking is?

If a woman is coerced or brought here under false pretenses and then forced into prostitution against her will, we would all agree that this would constitute trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation......it's sexual slavery, and a client paying to have sex with such a person, would under law be deemed to have committed rape, although his lack of knowledge that the person was engaging in sex under duress might act as a defence or mitigate the severity of sentencing.

If however, the escort in question came here willingly to work as an escort, but was assisted in coming here to work e.g. if an agency were to organise her travel, accommodation, advertising etc., would the law also deem this to be trafficking?

Can anybody with legal knowledge in this area answer this one.

I always assumed trafficking meant you had to be forced. Maybe brought under false pretence even. The first time I worked in the Middle East I was assisted in going over there and had my flights etc paid for. However I was jumping into it knowingly and willingly. The person who assisted me was commiting an offence I guess as they were proffiting from prostitution however they were not trafficking me by any means.

[carlos marvado]

I always assumed trafficking meant you had to be forced. Maybe brought under false pretence even. The first time I worked in the Middle East I was assisted in going over there and had my flights etc paid for. However I was jumping into it knowingly and willingly. The person who assisted me was commiting an offence I guess as they were proffiting from prostitution however they were not trafficking me by any means.

The problem is that the law is a funny animal.........we may think that we have a clear understanding of what "trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation or prostitution" means, but a judge may interpret it completely differently.

If we forget about sex and prostitution for a moment and concentrate on people trafficking for other purposes instead. Many people in places like North Africa, Mexico etc. willingly pay people traffickers large sums of money to get them into the EU or across the border into the US. They want to get into these places to try and achieve a better standard of living and traffickers are exploiting this desire by charging large sums of money to assist them. Very often these people have been found adrift in places like the Mediterranean after the boat engine has broken down or their bodies been found somewhere after the rust bucket sank. These cases seem to be regarded as people trafficking even though those being trafficked were willing participants and there was no suggestion that false pretenses were employed or that the people were destined for sex work.

There is therefore a need to understand exactly how the law defines a trafficked sex worker.

[warmcome]

i was surprised to read this:

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...e-1949427.html

as far as i know, nobody has been convicted of
sex trafficking in Ireland to date, although there have been other types of trafficking convictions:

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland...ng-141070.html