Medical and Forensic Assessment Terminology

Any sex act for which anything of value is given to or received by any person (Foreign Relations and Intercourse 22 U.S.C.§7102(4)).

“All types of sexual assault when drugs, alcohol or other intoxicants are deliberately given to the victim by the perpetrator” (Faugno et al., 2012, p. 1). Suspected DFSA may require additional drug and/or alcohol testing. Samples may need to be sent to crime laboratory for further testing, which is not typically available in most health care facilities. Clinical judgment should be used to determine need to collect DFSA evidence. Consult local law enforcement or crime lab. (Texas Penal Code §22.021)

“The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing or soliciting of a person for the purposes of a commercial sex act, in which the commercial sex act” is induced by force, fraud or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age (Foreign Relations and Intercourse 22 U.S.C. §7102; Texas Penal Code, 20A).