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Some estimate that as many as 100,000 kids, mostly young girls are caught up in the U.S. sex trade right now.
And with the speed and ease of the Internet, that kind of criminal behavior is much harder to track.
Speier said Craigslist has become a conduit for illegal activity and it’s time for operators to shut the adult services section down.
She made that exact request in a letter sent to Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster and he responded by saying the company has a zero tolerance policy for crime and would welcome suggestions to prevent misuse.
”I know that Mr. Buckmaster believes that they’re doing as much as can be done and I just don’t agree with them,” said Speier.
She said she will also ask U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello to help San Francisco’s Craigslist avoid the facilitation of prostitution and human trafficking.
See the full article from “KCBS”
… I was a barker and it was my job to try and get sailors’ sea pay from them,” he said. “There was a row of whorehouses and bars and strip-joints and they’d come out the gate and I’d yell insults at the command to try and endear myself to the sailors. Then we’d entice them to come in this little store and sell them over-priced civilian clothes or cars.”
Two months was all he needed of life as a “barker.” Shortly thereafter, he packed his belongings in a borrowed sea bag and headed south with a buddy from the Marine Corps.
“It was a tough world in some ways with a lot of drug use and unsettling things and unhappiness,” he said. “I had a few friends who were very nice people but they were prostitutes so it wasn’t like you were going to go on a date with them.”
