According to the U.S. Department of State (2017b), ________ occurs when a child (under 18 years of age) is recruited, enticed, harbored, transported, provided, obtained, patronized, solicited, or maintained to perform a commercial sex act, proving force, fraud, or coercion is not necessary for the offense to be prosecuted as human trafficking. There are no exceptions to this rule: no cultural or socioeconomic rationalizations alter the fact that children who are exploited in prostitution are trafficking victims.

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Child sex trafficking involves the recruitment, enticement, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, soliciting, or maintaining of a child for the purpose of a commercial sex act, without the need to prove force, fraud, or coercion.