Although state and federal legislature have been passed laws to address and end human trafficking, their success in not known. However, trafficking in women for sexual exploitation, account for the majority of cases that are detected globally (Farell & McDevitt, 2014). During a time when sexual morality was questionable, lawmakers sought to abort the potential state of panic caused by certain acts. Therefore, the Mann Act, also termed the White Slavery Traffic Act was enacted in 1910. The Mann Act made it a crime to transport women and girls out of the state for the purpose of: 1) committing sexual acts, 2) participating in prostitution, 3) forcing them into sexual corruption, or 4) participating in any other sexually immoral act. However, the Supreme Court incorporated deceit into the law and sought to incorporate all illicit sex, to include willful adultery, and voluntary prostitution (Smith, 2012). The Supreme Court decision, gave law enforcement the legal right to penalize all sexual acts outside of marriage. Hence, Federal prosecutors didnt hesitate to belligerently employ their new power to age an all-out campaign against fornication and adultery (Ollus, 2915).
