1Assistant Professor of Forensic Medicine, Apollo Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre, Chittoor
2Senior Resident of Forensic Medicine, JIPMER, Puducherry
3Assistant Professor of Forensic Medicine, Malla reddy Medical College for women, Hyderabad
4Assistant Professor of Forensic Medicine, MNR Medical College, Hyderabad
5Assistant Professor of Forensic Medicine, RIMS, Adilabad
*Corresponding Author: Dr Vijaya Durga K Assistant Professor of Forensic Medicine, Apollo Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre, Chittoor; Mobile No:9885852000 E-mail ID: luckysai1810@gmail.com
Online published on 6 January, 2018.
Sex trafficking is a crime that affects nearly every community across our nation; it is an insidious threat that has proven difficult to track and quantify, and exceedingly hard to dismantle. We cannot ignore the networks, pipelines, the victims, or the systems that enable women trafficking. The above definitions highlight the role of coercion and deceit in trapping victims and isolating them from help, transporting them away from family and community networks, and exploiting them for economic or personal gain.
Sex trafficking is a highly underreported crime for a variety reasons, including the fact that “many trafficking victims do not identify themselves as victims. Some suffer from fear, shame, and distrust of law enforcement. It is also not unusual for trafficking victims to develop traumatic bonds with their traffickers because of the manipulative nature of this crime.”[1]
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