Dr. Marcel van der Watt

Hi, Anoushka. Thank you for this time, for having this conversation.

Hi, Anoushka. Thank you for this time, for having this conversation.

Hi, Anoushka. Thank you for this time, for having this conversation.

Well, sex trafficking at its core revolves around the use of fraud, force, or coercion to exploit people, usually for commercial sex. There's obviously also forced labor, but when you're talking about sex trafficking, there's always the commercial sexual exploitation component to that crime.

Well, sex trafficking at its core revolves around the use of fraud, force, or coercion to exploit people, usually for commercial sex. There's obviously also forced labor, but when you're talking about sex trafficking, there's always the commercial sexual exploitation component to that crime.

Well, sex trafficking at its core revolves around the use of fraud, force, or coercion to exploit people, usually for commercial sex. There's obviously also forced labor, but when you're talking about sex trafficking, there's always the commercial sexual exploitation component to that crime.

so many of the victims in these crimes don't think they are victims or even consider themselves victims they are either parts of the definition of sex trafficking where it talks about the abuse of a position of vulnerability you know where people where a vulnerability is taking advantage of because of factors like social circumstances economic circumstances being pregnant being undocumented

so many of the victims in these crimes don't think they are victims or even consider themselves victims they are either parts of the definition of sex trafficking where it talks about the abuse of a position of vulnerability you know where people where a vulnerability is taking advantage of because of factors like social circumstances economic circumstances being pregnant being undocumented

so many of the victims in these crimes don't think they are victims or even consider themselves victims they are either parts of the definition of sex trafficking where it talks about the abuse of a position of vulnerability you know where people where a vulnerability is taking advantage of because of factors like social circumstances economic circumstances being pregnant being undocumented

Some of it could be in a nightclub. It could be in a brothel. I've done work elsewhere in the world. Some areas' brothels are legal. In some places, they are not. So it could be a brothel, a strip club, definitely at house parties often where there's a very, very kind of a controlled way of knowing who enters and who doesn't.

Some of it could be in a nightclub. It could be in a brothel. I've done work elsewhere in the world. Some areas' brothels are legal. In some places, they are not. So it could be a brothel, a strip club, definitely at house parties often where there's a very, very kind of a controlled way of knowing who enters and who doesn't.

Some of it could be in a nightclub. It could be in a brothel. I've done work elsewhere in the world. Some areas' brothels are legal. In some places, they are not. So it could be a brothel, a strip club, definitely at house parties often where there's a very, very kind of a controlled way of knowing who enters and who doesn't.

and everybody at a venue like that has some value that can be extracted by the the criminal group and sometimes these are just social events in in the public eye you know depending on what the

and everybody at a venue like that has some value that can be extracted by the the criminal group and sometimes these are just social events in in the public eye you know depending on what the

and everybody at a venue like that has some value that can be extracted by the the criminal group and sometimes these are just social events in in the public eye you know depending on what the

The purpose is of the party, is it part of a method to build a relationship, to build rapport with a possible investor or an asset, or is it really just to go all out and abuse, exploit, you know, usually women, and in the process entertain, and in the process, again, corruption, complicity, compromising people in order to extract value from them subsequently.

The purpose is of the party, is it part of a method to build a relationship, to build rapport with a possible investor or an asset, or is it really just to go all out and abuse, exploit, you know, usually women, and in the process entertain, and in the process, again, corruption, complicity, compromising people in order to extract value from them subsequently.

The purpose is of the party, is it part of a method to build a relationship, to build rapport with a possible investor or an asset, or is it really just to go all out and abuse, exploit, you know, usually women, and in the process entertain, and in the process, again, corruption, complicity, compromising people in order to extract value from them subsequently.

Well, sex trafficking can happen as linear as being trafficked from one house to another house in a street by an individual trafficker, right? It could be an organized criminal group. I mean, the nature of transportation systems and we're looking at technology, et cetera, has really made these groups very, very fluid, very dynamic. These relationships are often relationships of convenience.

Well, sex trafficking can happen as linear as being trafficked from one house to another house in a street by an individual trafficker, right? It could be an organized criminal group. I mean, the nature of transportation systems and we're looking at technology, et cetera, has really made these groups very, very fluid, very dynamic. These relationships are often relationships of convenience.