This article will examine the recent mobilization of the child welfare system to better protect child sex trafficking victims and argue that this same attention would benefit child labor trafficking victims. It will also discuss the recently passed Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (P.L. 113-183) and discuss how the new federal framework could have benefited child labor trafficking victims as well as child sex victims.
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