The group that helped kick “erotic services” off Craigslist is now going after Village Voice Media’s Backpage.com for hosting child sex-trafficking ad — and they want a crackdown before the Super Bowl, traditionally sex trafficking’s biggest weekend.
Michelle Goldberg reports that the Rebecca Project for Human Rights, having scored a victory with Craigslist, is turning its attention to Backpage.com. Village Voice Media is already being sued in connection with the ad referred to above, by a teenage girl known as M.A., for “aiding and abetting her pimp, Latasha Jewell McFarland, who has been sentenced to five years in prison. McFarland posted nude photos of the teenage runaway on Backpage and used it to arrange encounters with clients in highway motels.”