Prosecuting Human Trafficking Cases: Going Forward Without a Victim

A webinar on strategies for law enforcement and prosecutors to pursue evidence-based human trafficking investigations in which a victim is unable to participate.

Target Audience: Law enforcement personnel and prosecutors

Overall Objective: To provide charging strategies to support prosecutions where victims are unable to testify; demonstrate how “force, fraud, and coercion” can be established through physical evidence, non-hearsay statements, exceptions to hearsay, and digital evidence; analyze how forfeiture by wrongdoing can be used to admit victim statements as non-hearsay; and explore nontraditional means of conducting undercover operations which target traffickers instead of potential victims.

Project Funding Provided By: The Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice

Includes: A webinar featuring subject matter experts Jane Anderson, Attorney Advisor, AEquitas, and Sgt. Grant Snyder, Director of Law Enforcement Training, International Association of Human Trafficking Investigators

To learn more about IACP’s anti-human trafficking resources, go to the https://www.theiacp.org/projects/anti-human-trafficking-training-and-technical-assistance.