The United Nations defines modern slavery, or human trafficking, thus: «the recruitment, transportation,
transfer, harboring or receipt of persons,
by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of
deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.
While the employee knowingly initiated the
transfer, the Court held that «larceny
by trick is still larceny» and the employee's knowledge and consent was only obtained
by deception.