Title 18, U.S.C., Section 1591 – Sex Trafficking of Children by Force, Fraud, or Coercion
This statute makes it unlawful to knowingly place a person (or profiting from a person placed) in a commercial sex act, where the person is either a minor, or their services are engaged by force, fraud, or coercion.
Punishment varies depending on the age of the person placed into the act as follows: if the person is under the age of fourteen years at the time of the commission of the unlawful act, the punishment varies from a fine to imprisonment for any term of years, or both; if the person was between the ages of fourteen and eighteen, the punishment varies from a fine to imprisonment of up to forty years, or both.
Hate Crimes – Color of Law/Police Misconduct – Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances
Involuntary Servitude/Slavery and Human Trafficking – Civil Rights Statutes
source: FBI.com
