the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or
services, slavery, servitude or the removal or sale of organs.
"The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, adoption or receipt of a
child for the purpose of exploitation or when the adoption is induced by any form
of consideration for exploitative purposes shall also be considered as ‘trafficking
in persons’ even if it does not involve any of the means set forth in the
preceding paragraph.
"(b) Child – refers to a person below eighteen (18) years of age or one who is
over eighteen (18) but is unable to fully take care of or protect himself/herself
from abuse, neglect, cruelty, exploitation, or discrimination because of a
physical or mental disability or condition.
"(c) Prostitution – refers to any act, transaction, scheme or design involving the
use of a person by another, for sexual intercourse or lascivious conduct in
exchange for money, profit or any other consideration.
"(d) Forced Labor – refers to the extraction of work or services from any person
by means of enticement, violence, intimidation or threat, use of, force or
coercion, including deprivation of freedom, abuse of authority or moral
ascendancy, debt-bondage or deception including any work or service extracted
from any person under the menace of penalty.
"(e) Slavery – refers to the status or condition of a person over whom any or all
of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised.
"(f) Involuntary Servitude – refers to a condition of enforced and compulsory
service induced by means of any scheme, plan or pattern, intended to cause a
person to believe that if he or she did not enter into or continue in such
condition, he or she or another person would suffer serious harm or other forms
of abuse or physical restraint, or threat of abuse or harm, or coercion including
depriving access to travel documents and withholding salaries, or the abuse or
threatened abuse of the legal process.
"(g) Sex Tourism – refers to a program organized by travel and tourism-related
establishments and individuals which consists of tourism packages or activities,
utilizing and offering escort and sexual services as enticement for tourists. This
includes sexual services and practices offered during rest and recreation
periods for members of the military.
"(h) Sexual Exploitation – refers to participation by a person in prostitution,
pornography or the production of pornography, in exchange for money, profit or
any other consideration or where the participation is caused or facilitated by any
means of intimidation or threat, use of force, or other forms of coercion,
abduction, fraud, deception, debt bondage, abuse of power or of position or of
legal process, taking advantage of the vulnerability of the person, or giving or
receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having
control over another person; or in sexual intercourse or lascivious conduct
caused or facilitated by any means as provided in this Act.