{"id":1244,"date":"2011-11-07T08:46:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T13:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/activistfaith\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2011-11-07T08:46:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T13:46:57","slug":"help-stop-sex-trafficking-on-backpage-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/activistfaith\/2011\/11\/help-stop-sex-trafficking-on-backpage-com.html","title":{"rendered":"Help Stop Sex Trafficking on Backpage.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Human trafficking is a crime–and one that involves a lot of money. Unfortunately, Backpage.com, a web property owned by Village Voice Media, is helping foster this tragic epidemic.The reason it continues is because people like you and me fail to do something about it.<\/p>\n

So here’s our chance.<\/p>\n

Some time ago, I joined and promoted a petition<\/a> on this issue. To date, 66,151 people have joined. If you haven’t yet, please take two minutes to do so<\/a>. You’ll be glad you did.<\/p>\n

The information and link to the petition is below.<\/p>\n

Be the change!<\/p>\n

-Dillon<\/p>\n

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From Change.org<\/h5>\n
Why this is Important<\/h5>\n

Sex trafficking of girls and boys on Backpage.com, owned by Village Voice Media, is becoming a disturbing trend.<\/p>\n

A Georgia man was arrested<\/a> for pimping two 17-year-old girls around the Nashville area. Detectives responded to a suspicious ad on Backpage.com and drove to a motel. There, they found the teens and their 37-year-old pimp, as well as a laptop computer, likely used for the online advertising. Just four days prior to that, four people in Denver were arrested<\/a> for forcing a teen girl into prostitution. They also advertised her sexual services, including semi-nude pictures, on Backpage. And last year, a South Dakota couple was arrested<\/a> for selling underage girls for sex on …. wait for it … Backpage.com yet again.<\/p>\n

Village Voice Media has a moral responsibility to ensure that young girls aren’t being abused in the commercial sex industry with help from their website, and that they aren’t facilitating human trafficking.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, a rising movement of people of many faiths and backgrounds, motivated by their shared moral convictions, are taking action to end this practice.<\/p>\n

Please join us in demanding that Village Voice Media – Backpage.com’s parent company – stop the sex trafficking of minors on Backpage.com by shutting down the Adult section of the website.<\/p>\n

Petition Letter<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n

Stop Providing a Platform for Child Sex Trafficking on Backpage.com<\/em><\/p>\n

Dear Mr. Larkin and the Village Voice Media Board of Directors,<\/em><\/p>\n

Please shut down the Adult section on Backpage.com and stop providing a platform for the sex trafficking of girls and boys. <\/em><\/p>\n

Additional safeguards are unlikely to entirely end the practice of minors being sold on the site. For us, one child sold for sex is one too many. <\/em><\/p>\n

Please follow Craigslist’s lead and get out of the adult services business immediately.<\/em><\/p>\n

Join here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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