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UNCLASSIFIED/ALES (U) Crimes Against Children and Human Trafficking Program Policy Guide trafficking does not require travel, transportation, or movement across borders. For child victims (anyone under 18 years of age), consent is irrelevant, and it is not necessary to prove force, fraud, or coercion. 4.7.1.1. (U) Sex Trafficking of Minors (U) STM is one of the most complex forms of child sexual exploitation. Offenders target and lure vulnerable children to engage in sex trafficking activities and other forms of sexual exploitation by using manipulation, drugs, and violence. Once a trafficker gains control over a child, he or she often uses acts of violence, intimidation, or psychological manipulation to keep the child in a life of sex trafficking. (U) STM investigations fall under the Innocence Lost National Initiative (ILNI), which is supported by DOJ-CEOS and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) ILNI was implemented in 2003 to address the problem of children being recruited and/or forced into commercial sex. (U//FOUO) FOs must work all STM investigations under the 50D classification. 4.7.1.2. (U) Adult Sex Trafficking (U) Adult sex trafficking investigations can involve USPER or non-USPER victims or both. FOs must investigate allegations of sex trafficking regardless of victims' nationalities. (U/FOUO) If the victim of an investigation (or a majority of the victims) is an USPER, the FO must work the investigation under the 50E classification. If the victim of an investigation (or a majority of the victims) is a non-USPER, the FO must work the investigation under the 50F classification. 4.7.2. (U) Labor Trafficking (U) Labor trafficking occurs when persons, both USPERs and non-USPERs, are compelled to perform labor or services through the use of force, threats of force, physical restraint, or threats of physical restraint, serious harm or threats of serious harm; abuse or threatened abuse of law or legal process, or coercion. 4.7.2.1. (U) Forced Labor (U) Forced Iabor refers to situations in which persons are coerced to work through the use of violence or intimidation, or by more subtle means, such as accumulated debt, retention of identity papers, or threats of denunciation to immigration authorities. (U//FOUO) FOs must work all forced Iabor investigations under the 50B classification. 4.7.2.2. (U) Domestic Servitude (U) Domestic servitude is the seemingly normal practice of using live-in help as cover for the exploitation and control of someone, usually from another country. It is a form of forced labor. challenges it presents. (U) Victims of domestic servitude may appear as nannies or other domestic help, but the moment their employment arrangement transitions into a situation whereby they cannot leave on their Own free will, it becomes a case of labor trafficking. (U//FOUO) FOs must work all domestic servitude investigations under the 50C classification 13 UNCLASSFIED/LES