Showing posts with label Backpage.com seized. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Backpage.com seized. Show all posts

Friday, April 6, 2018

Backpage Down BOOM



The classifieds website, Backpage, has been taken down by the FBI. Backpage specialized in prostitution pitches masquerading as dating ads as well as allegedly acting as a front for underage sex trafficking.

According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Backpage was involved in 73% of reports received concerning child sex trafficking in 2017. 

Backpage was America's largest classifieds service after Craigslist. DoSomething.org claims that human trafficking  is the world's third largest criminal industry, after narcotics and arms dealing, generating a profit of $32 billion annually.


Operation Broken Heart

Of an estimated 20.9 million victims of trafficking worldwide, 27% are under the age of 18, with 300,000 minors lured into the sex trade annually in the U.S.

The last year has seen concerted action taken by police against pedophile sex rings and child predators, such as Operation Broken Heart, which resulted in over 1000 arrests.




There need to be many, many more. We are active.

Lock them up.

LSP