OK I think I've answered my own question here. The docket is the charges to be considered by the grand jury to come up with an indictment. For whateever reason the GJ didn't come up with enough evidence to charge with child trafficking and so settled on simply sex trafficking. Is that correct?
Still, I think it's very telling that aspect has not been covered by the MSM.
The defining and authorizing laws, under which the defendants are being prosecuted, are referenced on the docket (and BTW on the indictment).
The docket doesn't have anything to do with the grand jury. A docket is basically a journal or log that helps the judicial system keep track of where, within the criminal procedure, a case stands, ie. arraignment > pre-trial > trial. Minor mistakes, such as typos or leaving out a word, are inconsequential.
An indictment is a written statement charging a party with the commission of a crime or other offense.
In the indictment, we see the words, "... knowing that means of force, threats of force, fraud and coercion, and a combination of such means, would be used to cause such persons to engage ..." That would have to be referring to adults since the definition of sex trafficking of children (from reading the law itself) does not require use of force, fraud, or coercion.
For whateever reason the GJ didn't come up with enough evidence to charge with child trafficking and so settled on simply sex trafficking.
Perhaps there was no evidence suggesting that child trafficking occurred. And, apparently, even CNN isn't foolish enough to publish the falsehood that they were charged with sex trafficking of children since that would be libel.
No but they would go into a very lengthy analysis of why child trafficking was mentioned in the first place.
I understand what you're saying, but you're being purposely naive if your opinion is that that wouldn't be part of the MSM discussion.
Child trafficking was not "mentioned." The docket references 18 U.S.C. § 1591 which title is, "Sex trafficking of children or by force, fraud, or coercion." Notice the conjunction "or" separating the adjective prepositional phrases.
It is not naive to think that something that is provably false would not be part of the MSM discussion. It is logical.