The U.S. Department of Justice Defines Human Trafficking
 

Human Trafficking is a crime involving the exploitation of a person for labor,
services, or commercial sex.
 

The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 and its subsequent reauthorizations recognize and define two primary forms of human trafficking:
 

• Sex trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age.
  Sex Trafficking (22 U.S.C. § 7102(11)(A)
   

• Forced labor is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. 
  Forced Labor   (22 U.S.C. § 7102(11)(B)
   

Additional legal definitions are contained in 18 U.S.C. Chapter 77 (criminal definitions) and 19 U.S.C. § 1307 (includes definition of “forced labor” for purposes of implementing the federal prohibition on importation of goods produced with forced labor).

Florida Statute

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​Human Trafficking is defined in Trafficking - Florida State Statute 787.06 as:
the transporting, soliciting, recruiting, harboring, providing, enticing, maintaining, purchasing, patronizing, procuring, or obtaining another person for the purpose of exploiting the person for:
1)  Commercial sex 
2)  Labor (or) 
3)  Services
by the use of force, fraud or coercion. 
 

NOTE: 

Any minor (someone under the age of 18) engaged in commercial sex is a victim of Sex Trafficking.  Commercial sex is when "anything of value" is given (or promised to anyone) in exchange for the sexual act.