PB #2722 NOTABLE >>2159118 Human trafficking now among the crimes that have no statute of limitations in the Virgin Islandsns in the Virgin Islands
ACTUALLY IT APPEARS THEY PASSED A UNIFORM LAW
It looks like Virgin Islands, Delaware, Louisiana, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, West Virginia have all enacted UNIFORM LAW FOR PREVENTION OF AND REMEDIES FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING
All States need to step up and enact these laws IMO!
SEE MAP AND 'BROCHURE'
SAUCE:
https://www.uniformlaws.org/Act.aspx?title=Prevention%20of%20and%20Remedies%20for%20Human%20Trafficking
NOTES FROM THE SUMMARY
Described as modern-day slavery that victimizes over 27 million people worldwide, human
trafficking is a global concern that affects the United States on federal, state, and local levels. By
2012, human trafficking had become the second fastest growing criminal activity in the United
States, following drug trafficking.
The UAPRHT offers a comprehensive approach that holds traffickers accountable and provides
critical support for victims. The Act has been described as “a major milestone,” a
“groundbreaking” act, and a “game-changer” by those working most closely with law
enforcement and victims.
Working with states to combat human trafficking
The UAPRHT enables states to update and strengthen their existing state laws with state-of-theart
provisions that reflect emerging best practices. Some states have comprehensive criminal
laws on most facets of human trafficking. Others have only minimal criminal provisions. Some
states cover all forms of labor and sex trafficking and protect all children under eighteen. Others
may cover only sex trafficking or fail to protect all children under eighteen. Some states cover all
methods that traffickers use to keep their workers as virtual slaves. Others do not cover some
methods that traffickers use to ensure their workers remain under their control and unable to
escape, such as threatening to hurt or kill the workers’ loved ones, confiscating the workers’
immigration papers, or “debt bondage” (ensnaring victims in ever-rising and often-fictitious debt
to be repaid through physical labor that can never satisfy the debt) .
The three-pronged fight against human trafficking
The uniform act presents the three-pronged approach that law enforcement and victims’
advocates consider essential. Under the first prong, the uniform act seeks to prevent and to
penalize the criminal conduct—trafficking, forced labor, and sexual servitude—at the core of
human trafficking. Clear offenses are created that reflect the ways in which human traffickers
operate: the act provides states the latitude to align the classification of offenses with existing
state law. The act recognizes the forms of coercion that human traffickers use, including threats,
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force, debt bondage, abuse of the legal process, and use of a victim’s disability/mental impairment.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING IS A FORM OF MODERN DAY SLAVERY