The sexual trafficking of children is a crime that “spans all walks of communities.” So says a cybercrime detective after serving an arrest warrant in DeKalb county to a man accused of the sexual exploitation of children.
Moral and religious leaders from many creeds and backgrounds have joined together to demand that Village Voice Media do their part to end the sexual trafficking of children by ending “adult service” ads on Backpage.com.
SIGN HERE to demand Village Voice Media shut down the Adult section of Backpage.com.
It’s a moral outrage that girls and boys are sold for sex right here in the U.S.
A multi-faith coalition of thirty-six prominent clergy members ran a full-page ad in the New York Times, calling on Village Voice Media to shut down the “adult ads” section of Backpage.com, which all too often serves as a platform for the sex trafficking of children.
Congratulations to A Future. Not A Past. and everyone involved on a successful 7200 Steps to Stop Demand for the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children.
Great job, everyone! Let’s get ready for 2012!
The National Association of Attorneys General recently sent a letter to Backpage.com’s legal counsel regarding Backpage.com’s ongoing failure to effectively limit prostitution and sexual trafficking activity on its website. The attorneys general wrote “As our state’s chief law enforcement officers, we are increasingly concerned about human trafficking, especially the trafficking of minors. Backpage.com is a hub for such activity.”
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Kaffie McCullough, the campaign director of A Future. Not A Past., discusses this year’s 5K walk/run, and remembers last year’s, as the community comes together to fight child sex trafficking.
The Accor Group of Hotels in Fiji and New Zealand recently signed EPCAT’s Tourism Code of Conduct, an agreement that helps to fight child sex slavery through tourism.
Demetrius Homer was arrested for and convicted of sexually exploiting two teenage girls.
“From outrage to outcomes,” a guiding principle of Kayrita M. Anderson’s family foundation, perfectly captures her philanthropic journey. Outraged by an article about child sex slavery in her home city of Atlanta, Kayrita knew she had to act. “The police had pulled an 11-year old girl out of a van with about eight or nine grown men. Yet it was the child who wound up in shackles before the judge. How is that possible?”
