Absence of threat, force or coercion is not a defense in child trafficking cases

My neighbor’s child was rescued from an alleged human trafficker. At the police station, the suspect argued that the child voluntarily agreed to be trafficked in exchange for a large sum of money for the child’s parents. The suspect further claimed that he did not threaten, force, nor coerce the child to go with him…

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