Nebraska lawmakers are taking a much harder line on human trafficking. Siouxland Public Media’s Mary Hartnett has more.
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The bill says that those who create the demand and the supply for coerced sex or labor could face life in prison. The measure raises the penalties for those who solicit or traffic child victims to a minimum of one year and a maximum of life in prison. One of the biggest changes is that the bill equates those who purchase sex with the traffickers who profit from it. Those who pander and solicit sex from an adult trafficking victim could be serve 50 years in prison. Trafficking victims cannot be prosecuted for participating in the trafficking of others. Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts is expected to sign the bill. For Siouxland Public Media, I’m Mary Hartnett.
