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23 Conn. Pub. Int. L.J. 41 (2023-2024)
Child Labor Trafficking: The Overlooked Child Welfare Issue

handle is hein.journals/cpilj23 and id is 179 raw text is: Child Labor Trafficking: The Overlooked Child Welfare Issue STEPHANIE K. RICHARD,* DANIEL J. STEPHENSON,t & MARK R. CHERNAUSEK$ ABSTRACT This article examines the mobilization of the child welfare system to better protect child sex trafficking victims and argues that this same attention would benefit child labor trafficking victims. It discusses the impacts of The Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act in 2014 and The Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act in 2015, similar updates to federal and state laws, including The Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act in 2022, and how these legislative frameworks could have benefited child labor trafficking victims as well as child sex victims while saving resources. Finally, it presents recommendations for bringing child labor trafficking into the purview of the child welfare system. ARTICLE CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: INTERSECTION BETWEEN CHILD WELFARE AND T R A FFICK IN G ................................................................................ . . 42 A. Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and the Child Welfare Sy ste m .......................................................................................... . 4 4 B. Child Labor Trafficking and the Child Welfare System ......... 45 C. Child Labor Trafficking Often Involves Similar Dynamics to CSEC .......................................................................................................... 48 II. FEDERAL FRAMEWORK FOR CSEC TRAFFICKING AND THE CHILD W ELFARE SY STEM ......................................................................... . 51 * Stephanie K. Richard, Esq. is the Director of Loyola Marymount University, Loyola Law School's Sunita Jain Anti-Trafficking Initiative (SJI). SJI trains and engages students to promote anti-carceral policies to prevent human trafficking. Richard previously served as the Senior Policy Advisor at the Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST). CAST is a direct service provider for survivors of human trafficking in California and serves as a crucial bridge between practice and public policy to end trafficking. t Daniel J. Stephenson, Esq. is senior of counsel at K&L Gates LLP. Stephenson was a founding steering committee member for the K&L Gates LLP's Anti-Human Trafficking Initiative. He is the pro bono coordinator for his firm's Raleigh office and, along with K&L Gates LLP associate Kristi A. Nickodem, contributed to numerous trafficking cases for CAST and other pro bono clients. $ Mark R. Chernausek is a Juris Doctorate Candidate at Loyola Marymount University, Loyola Law School. During law school, he externed with the United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California and contributed to sex and labor trafficking prosecutions.

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