Underage sex trade still flourishing online. Backpage to be shut down soon?.

[sweet like salsa]

Craigslist's adult section was shut down. Backpage will be next, then what. You think another adult section will open up?. What is sad and scary is

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/20/siu.selling.girl.next.door.backpage/index.html

*Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) -- Her ankles and wrists are shackled. She's wearing used sweats in the bright colors of the jailhouse, orange, blue and yellow. She shuffles to the courtroom to face the judge, her mother, and an uncertain future.
Selena is a 13-year-old who was sold for sex.

*Selena was arrested by undercover police on the Vegas strip on prostitution charges. But although she exchanged sex for money, in the eyes of the law, she's a victim, by virtue of her age and the circumstances under which she was sold: by a pimp on the website backpage.com, a pimp who used drugs to entice her, and took everything she earned.

*She may be a victim, but she can't go home, because no one trusts that she won't run again, back into the arms of a pimp.

*According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, there are at least 100,000 underage girls being sex trafficked in America today. NCMEC believes the real number could be as high as 300,000.

*Backpage's escort site earned an estimated $20 million in 2010. Its profits soared after Craigslist decided to pull the plug on its adult services section.

 

[ms.prissy]

I don't believe we have this problem in Canada. I have never ran into any SP that I would suspect of being underage and I would promptly walk out if I had.

 

[ARMY*WIFE[lovin life]]

[video]http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2011/01/19/siu.selling.the.girl.next.door2.cnn[/video]

 

[Shark bait]

DATELINE'S TO CATCH A PREDATOR

[video=youtube;EwFr_VcGMKQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwFr_VcGMKQ[/video]

I loved watching the look on the pervs face when he was busted!!

 

[Sam Da Man]

Pimps that use underage kids should be shot PERIOD.

 

[Pompal 09.]

That is why I only see ladies from reliable MPs and escort agencies. I feel it's in their best interest to not allow anyone underage to slip in plus I tend to avoid ladies that are questionable looking right off the bat based on the pictures that I come across in the classifieds.

 

[Amir H.]

+ 1

 

[SG Brittanys]

The CNN lead article is of course strictly 100% factual and not in the least exaggerated or distorted and I believe absolutely every word. :

 

[xxdrzchulaxx]

Really :neutral:.