Lava
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This site in the article needs shut down but there are so many online that stay up. NAMBLA for one.
Backpage.com: Doorway to sex trafficking?
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The site is operated by Village Voice Media, an alternative news weekly chain based right here in Phoenix. It also owns the Phoenix New Times.
There's mounting pressure from several U.S. senators and dozens of mayors across the country to shut the site down. They say it's turning a profit on trafficking children for sex.
But at the same time, some argue this site actually helps police with their investigations -- though police say they don't support a site like this -- they admit it has helped them catch child predators.
"The entire thing is disgusting in the end when you think about sex slaves and children being victimized like this on the internet," says Holmes. "But at the same time it does give us access and I have to admit it does make it easier to follow up and to monitor."
"If I could eliminate trafficking and child sexual exploitation we would do it, we would it in a heartbeat," said Liz McDougall back in 2010, when she testified before congress. "What has happened is the ads have migrated to other sites."
more at link
http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/story/1...com?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
http://tucson.backpage.com/
I'm so torn about this. I've watched several interviews with the people that run the site, and police officers, and I've read some articles. I do believe that if backpage didn't exist they would still find ways to communicate and traffic humans. I am absolutely disgusted that it happens right under our very noses seemingly out in the open - but I do believe it is easier for them to get caught this way, or at least noticed so LE can do their best to find them. Ugh...hate, HATE, HATE sickos!