Posted on 03/05/2009 4:07:59 PM PST by NormsRevenge
CHICAGO (AFP) - An Illinois sheriff filed a lawsuit against Craigslist on Thursday calling the popular website the largest clearing house for prostitution in the United States.
Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart sued the owners of the classified ad site in US District Court for facilitating prostitution by failing to block blatant offers to trade sex for money.
"Craigslist is the single largest source of prostitution in the nation," Dart said at a press conference in Chicago.
"Missing children, runaways, abused women and women trafficked in from foreign countries are routinely forced to have sex with strangers because they're being pimped on Craigslist."
Dart's lawsuit was filed four months after San Francisco-based Craigslist settled a nationwide lawsuit by promising to enact new rules to crack down on prostitution.
Dart said his officers have seen no change in the number or type of postings in the "Erotic Services" section since the website's owner promised "sweeping changes" and said "no amount of criminal activity is acceptable."
"This section is a convenient clearing house for pimps, prostitutes and patrons that enables sellers to advertise and buyers to peruse discretely," Dart said in court filings.
Dart said he has made numerous written pleas to Craigslist in the past two years asking them to shut down the Erotic Services section, which generates about 300 posts a day in Chicago alone.
In the past two years, Dart's department has made more than 200 arrests linked to the website on charges that include juvenile pimping, human trafficking and endangerment of a child.
The people arrested have ranged from heroin addicts to suburban soccer moms, a former reality TV star and teenagers as young as 14 years old.
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I thought Bill Clinton was the largest source of prostitution in the US....Oh, wait. Maybe that was user of prostitution...
...nevermind.
This conclusion must have been determined before the November ‘08 election.
Gee, I always have used Craigs list to find tenants for my rooms, what have I been missing??
Prostitution, pimping, and pandering: A-OK
Human trafficking, child abuse, and sex slavery: No Problemo
Selling a gun: NO WAY BUDDY, GET THE HE## OFF MY SITE
It’s not too obvious that “Craig” is a lib, right?
wear a pair of ....????..rubbers while surfing there, and make sure your shots..(virus) are up to date
A lot of ugly is coming out of Illinois lately.
You guys are all wrong eharmony is < /sarcasm>
..ask Barnnney Frwank's boy toy
Then use the money to bust the folks on Craigslist that advertise these services.
The sheriff is an idiot. In Cook Co., he can’t find more pressing matters to pursue?
Why do obese women post their pictures on Craigslist?
I don't believe this story at all!
I'll just have to go to that site and, uh, take a look for myself.
(Didn't that article say something about soccer moms?)
That is an insult to prostitutes.
That's what these folks are doing. Just looking for tenants . . . on an hourly basis. : )
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