It seems like it will be fact specific. "Sex Trafficking" and "Severe forms of trafficking in persons" are defined in 22 U.S. Code § 7102 (https://www.law.corn

It seems like it will be fact specific. "Sex Trafficking" and "Severe forms of trafficking in persons" are defined in 22 U.S. Code § 7102 (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/7102 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/7102). > (12) Sex trafficking > The term “sex trafficking” means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act. "Commercial sex act" is also defined in this section: > (4) Commercial sex act > The term “commercial sex act” means any sex act on account of which anything of value is given to or received by any person. Finally, "severe trafficking" is defined as: > (11) Severe forms of trafficking in persons > The term “severe forms of trafficking in persons” means— > (A) sex trafficking in which 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; or If you combine all of those definitions it seems clear that if the prosecution can show: - Matt Gaetz paid the transportation costs - of a minor - in exchange for a sex act (for himself or another) That would constitute a "severe form of trafficking" according to the United States Code. Paying for travel would constitute transportation. If the payment for travel is in exchange for a sex act, that would transform it into a "commercial sex act". Finally, if that person is a minor that would trigger the 11 (A) condition to make it a severe form of trafficking.