人口贩卖诊所获资助打击对儿童的商业剥削
该诊所正与谷歌、要求废除、刺等机构合作，为终结嫖娼未成年人不受惩罚的现象提供建议。
波士顿大学法学院’s 贩卖人口诊所 has received a generous grant to study how prosecutors across the country address the commercial sexual exploitation of children. The clinic is partnering with 谷歌, 要求废除, and 刺 to examine statutes under which sex buyers of minors are prosecuted in various jurisdictions and recommend new approaches to hold sex buyers accountable for their crimes. 该项目还将探索如何将技术用于刑事调查和证据收集。
“For too long have buyers have been able to purchase sex from minors with impunity,” says Ziba Cranmer, executive director of 要求废除, which works to eliminate the commercial sex industry by reducing the demand for commercial sex. “We are thrilled to collaborate with these partners to reframe the dialogue about this critical human rights issue and make clear that purchase of sex from minors is child abuse and unacceptable.”
“There are a growing number of crimes that apply to the commercial sexual exploitation of children, but too few prosecutions move forward,” says 朱莉Dahlstrom, director of the 贩卖人口诊所. 她解释说，其中一个原因是不同的州使用不同的法规来处理这些罪行。 一些检察官使用拉客法，而另一些则根据人口贩运法进行指控，但这导致了零星的、零碎的做法，对阻止未成年人的性购买者几乎没有作用。
The 贩卖人口诊所, in coordination with attorneys from Ropes & Gray律师事务所, who are generously volunteering their time to assist with the research, will survey prosecutors across the country to understand how they charge these crimes, and what is and isn’t working. 这些案例澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究将为他们的调查结果提供信息，这些调查结果将为检察官审理涉及对儿童进行商业性剥削的案件提供指导。
我们的目标是采用以受害者为中心，了解创伤的回应方式，这样这些案件就不会以一种将受害者定罪或再次伤害受害者的方式起诉。 赠款的合作伙伴建议使用现有的儿童虐待、性暴力和儿童福利法规，以确保对未成年人的性购买者追究责任。
刺是一家推动技术创新以打击儿童性剥削的非营利组织，它将概述技术在儿童性剥削中的作用，并概述当前基于技术的干预措施。 “We believe that addressing demand is crucial to the fight to end child sex trafficking and support any efforts to prosecute child abuse cases effectively,” says Julie Cordua, 刺’s CEO. “We want to arm prosecutors with more tools to combat child sexual exploitation and recognize that using the child abuse framework to prosecute offenders can provide an alternative outlet for successful prosecution and deterrence. Ultimately, we hope to deter predatory behavior and make online environments more hostile to this type of abuse.”
澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究的最终结果将是给总检察长的指南和现场检察官立即使用该报告的工具包。 “The goal is to put our report in the hands of people who can provide national guidance,” Dahlstrom says. “The good news is that prosecutors already know how to handle child abuse cases. If we can overcome certain hurdles that are keeping these cases from moving forward, we can shift the framework nationally.”
虽然诊所的学生通常会把时间分配给代理性贩运或劳动力贩运幸存者的客户，以及参与由该代理提供信息的政策项目，但今年他们每个人除了个案工作外，还将被分配到与该项目相关的特定澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究角色。 “This is a great opportunity for our students to be involved in a project that will make a difference nationally on an important topic,” Dahlstrom says.
