Re: sex trafficking

[Mary Huiquan Zhou <zhouhuiq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, you do realize that as long as a person under 18 is involved in sex-for-
fee, he/she is considered a victim of sex trafficking, right? This means, 
he/she does not have to be transported (across national or state border)...

I do not know whether there are standard questions. I worked with the Teen 
Prostitution Prevention Project (TPPP) for a while, but I don't believe we use 
standard questions. As long as we suspect a juvenile has been involved in sex 
trade, we try to bring the juvenile in for interview. So, the juvenile can be 
referred from child protection, police, shelter, or hospital. TPPP is run by 
the children's advocacy center (CAC), which partners with the DA's office and 
mainly investigates child abuse issues. Once the juvenile is in CAC, we have a 
trained interviewer interview he/she in front of a one-way mirror. We have 
social workers, police, attorney and other people behind the mirror observing 
and telling the interviewer what to ask...It's case to case...though we have 
guidelines, but it's not in a standard questionaire form...

I am also interested in standard questions...if anyone has any info, it will be 
great! Thanks!


-- 
Mary Zhou
School of Social Policy and Practice
University of Pennsylvania


Quoting lfontes@rcn.com:

> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> I am looking for standard questions that might be asked of a young person in
> a medical or child abuse interview to determine whether that young person is
> a victim of sex trafficking. I realize these are two far different
> settings--information on both would be helpful.
> 
> many thanks!
> 
> Lisa Fontes, Ph.D.
> 
>