Typology

Trafficking

Commercial exploitation networks

18 U.S.C. § 1591(a) (sex trafficking); § 1594(c) (conspiracy)

Traffickers recruit and maintain victims through classifieds, social platforms, and encrypted messaging, lowering the cost of coordination across a distributed enterprise. In United States v. Chase Anthony Young, a Dallas operator ran a sex-trafficking organization dating to at least 2017 with nine identified victims. He pled guilty to causing three adult victims to engage in commercial sex by force, fraud, or coercion, placing online ads, renting hotel rooms, setting pricing and rules, and taking all proceeds while victims received beatings and scars, and was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.

Theoretized trajectory \(L^{*}_{g,A}\)

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Instantiated case

United States v. Chase Anthony Young (N.D. Tex.)

sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercionindividual-operator organizationonline-advertisement solicitationoperator pricing and rule-settingearnings confiscation30-year federal sentence

A · Affordances

Force, threats of force, fraud, or coercionThe coercive means Young used to compel the victims' compliance, including setting pricing and rules for them. Source: PR paras. 2, 4-5.
Online advertising platform (unnamed in source)The online platform on which Young placed advertisements for the victims to solicit commercial sex buyers; the specific platform is not named in the source. Source: PR para. 3.
Commercial sex act proceedsProceeds from commercial sex acts performed by the victims, taken in full by Young. Source: PR paras. 3-4.

S · States

Recruitment
Control
Exploitation
Earnings collection

ψ · Harm vectors

Physical exploitation
Psychological coercion
Debt bondage
Health endangerment