Posted by Sandra On August - 10 - 2010
Need another sad and horribly depressing story about kids? Sorry to have to oblige.
Craigslist, home of the great deals on couches and awesome hand-me-down sources for kids clothes, has become the go-to source for people trying to pimp out little kids. And numbers are rising.
The problem is particularly rampant in Atlanta, where A Future. Not A Past, a non-profit that works to fight child prostitution, says as many as one hundred seventy-six ads were posted on the free site in February trying to find a john for little girls.
The group released its findings last week, just as the FBI is working to prosecute two men they say pimped out a seventeen-year-old girl, passing her off as nineteen and using Craigslist to find men to have sex with her in an Atlanta motel.
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http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/04/20/child-prostitution-on-the-rise-on-craigslist.aspx
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