“Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive” ~ Sir Walter Scott In the world of predator and prey, the predator’s desire to satiate their hunger leads them inexorable to kill. Unlike humans, the wild predator’s desire to cull the weakest from the pack is purely instinctual. By contrast, people [...]
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4 August 2011 – U.S. federal government officials announced the arrests of 52 people involved in an international online child pornography ring that exploited children through a bulletin board with the moniker “Dreamboard.” The arrests were the culmination of an investigation launched in late 2009. Code named ‘Operation Delego,” this phase of the investigation was [...]
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First Lady Olive Lembe Kabila, the wife of President Joseph Kabila led approximately 17,000 women on Sunday in a march against sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The term ‘weaponized rape,’ has come to define the practice of raping women as a means of subjugating and decimating the enemy. Most of the [...]
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This morning Americans were greeted with recaps of CNN’s sobering and scathing report about child sex trafficking on Craigslist. This is not the first time that this allegation has made headlines, however, last night’s exposé signaled the beginning of a frontal assault on a long smoldering problem of Craigslist facilitating the trafficking and sale of children for sex.
Last month, two young girls sold for sex on Craigslist wrote letters to CEO Jim Buckmaster and Craig Newmark. One of them, M.C. who was first forced into prostitution at 11, told them she was forced to post her own ads to Craigslist during the day, and then answer them at night. Her pimp drove her around the country for years, using Craigslist as the primary means to advertise her. If she didn’t post on Craigslist, M.C.’s pimp would beat her and dunk her in ice water baths. The website was a central figure in the years of slavery and abuse she suffered.
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03/01/2012
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