Backpage Shuts Down Adult Ads After Removing Evidence of Child Sex Trafficking
Published: Feb 17, 2017 in Criminal Defense, Sex CrimesBackpage.com, a website that hosts classified ads, which has been the center of controversy for some time, announced in January it would remove its “adult” section of its American website. The decision came after months of scrutiny and a negative report by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which found the website knowingly facilitated sex trafficking of minors through ads in the section in question. Backpage’s legal problems stem from a lawsuit by a group of underage victims of sex trafficking, collectively known as Jane Doe, in addition to…