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US Police Official Sues Craigslist for Facilitating Prostitution
In his suit, sheriff Thomas Dart in Chicago has filed a federal lawsuit calling for a ban on the Erotic Services section of the website. He claimed that the owners of the site facilitated prostitution by failing to block blatant offers to trade sex for money.
"Craigslist is the single largest source of prostitution in the nation," Dart said at a press conference in Chicago. "Missing children, runaways, abused women and women trafficked in from foreign countries are routinely forced to have sex with strangers because they're being pimped on Craigslist."
The website, set up by Craig Newmark in 1995 after he started e-mailing friends with lists of local events in San Francisco, receives more than 500 million visitors a month. It runs classified ads, mostly free, for 450 cities or regions in 50 countries around the world, including nearly 30 in Britain.
Dart filed his lawsuit four months after the company settled a nationwide lawsuit by promising to enact new rules to crack down on prostitution.
"This section is a convenient clearing house for pimps, prostitutes and patrons that enables sellers to advertise and buyers to peruse discreetly," Dart said in court filings.
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