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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Better on the net and behind closed doors than out on the street.
This is the assclown that personally decided not to evict mortgage deadbeats.
That unilateral shedding of his duty left him with extra time on his hands...
San Francisco Craigs List.
Say no more...
PEOPLE ARE HAVING SEX FOR MONEY!!!! OH NO!!!1111
Yet, it’s just fine when a couple of boxers get paid to go into a ring and beat each other to a pulp and for football players to punish each other for 60 minutes while also being paid well.
Laws against consenting adults having sex for money has to be one of the most wrong headed ideas ever.
...and no, I’ve never used a prostitute, and don’t plan on becoming one. (sad one always has to give such a disclaimer on issues similar to this)
Well, there’s one thing about prostitution...don’t have to pay taxes.
A short term practice marriage...
Oh wait. I think DC already has such a force. It's called most Dems and far too many Reps. Never mind.
Craigslist is also the largest and best source for buying and selling a car. Hardly anyone uses classified ads for this purpose. Most dealers skip print ads in favor of craigslist.
In addition to cars and whores, craigslist is great for RVs, boats, computers, electronic equipment, tools, political debate and jobs of all sorts. If you don't know craigslist, you don't know jack.
Exactly...
The country is circling the drain, and this moron goes after Craigslist. wow....
This idiot is just attempting to justify his lucrative government wages, benefits and fat government pension. Fire his useless butt.
You bet, Craigslist is great!
Leave it to some overpaid government tax parasite to use this for his cause...
Maybe you are looking at it cockeyed?
Craig da pimp!
The best one I ever heard...
“Judge, I wasn’t selling sex, I was selling a demonstration on the proper use of a condom.”
“Then where was your banana?”
“I heartily endorse Craig’s List. It beats the yellow pages.” - Bob Beckel.
THAT is NOT the proper use of a condom!
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