Supporting Women Survivors
We’re creating Baltimore, Maryland’s only long-term residential housing program for female survivors of sexual exploitation, sex trafficking, and domestic violence.
Join us and together, we can help so many women rebuild their lives - one key at a time.
Important definitions
sex trafficking:
A commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age.
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sex exploitation:
Taking sexual advantage of another person without effective consent, and includes, without limitation, causing or attempting to cause the incapacitation of another person in order to gain sexual advantage over such other person; causing the prostitution of another person; recording, photographing or transmitting identifiable images of private sexual activity and/or the intimate parts (including genitalia, groin, breast or buttocks) of another person, allowing third parties to observe private sexual acts; engaging in voyeurism; and/or knowingly and intentionally exposing another person to a significant risk of a sexually transmitted infection.
lawinsider.com
domestic violence:
is the willful intimidation, physical assault, and/or other abusive behavior as part of a systemic pattern of power and control perpetrated by one intimate partner against another. It includes physical violence, sexual violence, threats, economic and emotional/psychological abuse. The frequency and severity of domestic violence varies dramatically.
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence