Coercion and how traffickers use it...
55 THINGS PARENTS & GRANDPARENTS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT HUMAN TRAFFICKING: #4
The grooming process is not always covert. It often requires overt actions including bullying and coercion. In this short but vital video, Dottie discusses how various forms of fraud or coercion are used.
These include but are not limited to threats made to the victim or another person, online and school bullying, stories of harm to others, threats of being arrested or using law enforcement to harm the victim, holding of legal real or fake documents, feigned love, promise of job opportunity, detaining a person due to debt, sleep deprivation, food deprivation, and/or threat of showing sexual images of victim.