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. (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. (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 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.