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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Maybe they should’ve used an apple?
Reminds me of the teens who hooked up with their girlfriends in a car. They had one condom. After one couple used it, they turned it inside out and gave it to the other couple. Of course she got pregnant by the first guy.
Have to wonder if they were all that dumb or if the first guy and second girl had already made a baby and needed to cover their tracks.
Well that would imply that the two dishonest ones were a bit smarter than their respective cuckolded mates.
Maybe it was the second guys idea to turn it inside out.
Either way...EWWWWW!
Police are now reacting to the fact that they can’t shakedown prostitutes who get caught out in the street? Too bad for corrupt cops this craigslist. Mostly ugly milfs wannabe’s on it, btw. This sort of thing goes on on every dating service website, btw. It cannot be regulated. Sorry Big Bro., your pot-o-gold shrinks with the introduction of newer technology.
You've never seen the rent adds with "Looking For Young Woman Rent Is Free", or "Man Looking For Woman To Share House". Then they go on to say, am not looking for anything sexual, I swear etc...
I see it at least twice a week. LOL. It's a numbers game I guess. I'm sure there are plenty of pretty chicks out there who are desperate for a room and will go the extra mile to get it, if you know what I'm saying.
PEOPLE ARE HAVING SEX FOR MONEY!!!! OH NO!!!**
Oh no? It’s called MARRIAGE. Just ask A-roid’s whore, uh, I mean ex-wife.
#18...Got a date for ya BG
No wonder so many people sign onto Craig’s List as “John”.
That's cheap!
‘scuse me. I don’t date wimmen.
Sorry. Momentary lapse of sanity. ;)
Except for Obama- he was the only virgin in that whorehouse!
Agreed, let's throw in drug use. It is my belief you cannot legislate peoples behavior. I say take out the criminal element, tax and move along. How many innocent people are going to be killed or seriously hurt one the stupid “war on drugs”. All the laws past to prosecute drug offenses erode our liberties.
My disclaimer: I use neither, other than common sense...jeez!
P.S. We live in an open society...or at least did.
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