Ohare Backpage
🛑 ALL INFORMATION CLICK HERE 👈🏻👈🏻👈🏻
Ohare Backpage
Create your free account or log in for more features.
Please enter email address to continue
Please enter valid email address to continue
Chrome
Safari
Continue
Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting.
April 6, 2018 / 10:20 PM
/ CBS Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Law enforcement officials calls it the world's top online brothel.
The government seizes and shuts down Backpage.com, the classified ad site, best known for selling sex.
The move is celebrated by Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart.
"This is huge, This site has been the primary focal point of sex traffickers. It's a victory for victims everywhere."
CBS 2's Audrina Bigos explains what this means.
For a long time lawmakers and advocacy groups have called for an investigation into Backpage.com.
Late Friday, the federal government sealed the website.
But the details are still sealed by the court.
It's an online classifieds site selling everything from phones to furniture.
An alert on the site saying "backpage.com and affiliated websites have been seized as part of an enforcement action."
The Justice Department shutting it down over sex trafficking ads.
"I honestly never thought I would see this day because literally for a decade now we have been fighting this battle," says Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart.
Dart has waged a war against websites like backpage.com that he says have facilitated prostitution and sex trafficking of minors.
His department has made hundreds of arrests.
"We're now going to have to see where these traffickers are going to go. Because we know they're not going to go away," says Dart.
Last year, a Chicago Police Commander talked to CBS News' Anna Werner about his vice unit posting phony ads to catch people hiring prostitutes.
When asked how long it takes to get responses, the commander said "within a minute or two."
Last fall, Yvonne Ambrose, a Chicago mother, testified before the U.S. Senate.
She told lawmakers her 16-year-old daughter Desiree Robinson was prostituted on Backpage.
The man who found her on Christmas Eve in 2016 beat and choked her before cutting her throat.
"Backpage.com and other companies like this must be held responsible for what they've created," says Ambrose.
This week Charles McFee pleaded guilty, admitting he introduced Robinson to a pimp for a finder's fee of $250.
Last year, a senate report alleged Backpage.com "knowingly concealed evidence" of child sex trafficking.
Backpage executives were called to testify but took the fifth.
There have been previous cases against Backpage that were thrown out.
First published on April 6, 2018 / 10:20 PM
© 2018 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
©2022 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Ошибка при установлении защищённого соединения
Страница, которую вы пытаетесь просмотреть, не может быть отображена, так как достоверность полученных данных не может быть проверена.
Пожалуйста, свяжитесь с владельцами веб-сайта и проинформируйте их об этой проблеме.
Во время загрузки страницы соединение с сервером было сброшено.
Отправка сообщений о подобных ошибках поможет Mozilla обнаружить и заблокировать вредоносные сайты
Сообщить
Попробовать снова
Отправка сообщения
Сообщение отправлено
использует защитную технологию, которая является устаревшей и уязвимой для атаки. Злоумышленник может легко выявить информацию, которая, как вы думали, находится в безопасности.
Create your free account or log in for more features.
Please enter email address to continue
Please enter valid email address to continue
Chrome
Safari
Continue
Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting.
January 10, 2017 / 8:43 AM
/ CBS Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS) -- The owners of Backpage.com on Monday shut down the "adult" section on the online-classified advertising site, just hours after a U.S. Senate committee released a report that found the site knowingly aided users in posting ads for prostitution and child sex trafficking.
The 53-page report issued Monday by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations is the most scathing probe yet of the controversial online marketplace built by the founders of the Village Voice. The site had become a frequent target of Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, who was sued by the company after he wrote letters to credit card companies asking them not to handle transactions for Backpages.
Dart's efforts earned a rebuke from the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, which likened his efforts to use his office to discourage the card companies to cut ties with Backpage to "suffocating" the Backpage out of existence, language the website operators repeated in a press release.
"As federal appeals court Judge Richard Posner has described, the goal is either to 'suffocate' Backpage out of existence or use the awesome powers of the government to force Backpage to follow in the footsteps of Craigslist and abandon its Adult advertising section," the release states.
As of late Monday, ads in the "Adult" section of the site— which includes ads in categories including "escorts," "body rubs" and "strippers & strip clubs" all were marked "censored," with links leading to a message that read: "The government has unconstitutionally censored this content. What happened? Find out." Subsequent links led to letters from Backpage founders Michael Lacey and James Larkin, and statements from supportive members of law enforcement and free speech advocates.
Lacey and Larkin, as well as current Backpage owner Carl Ferrer, all were slated to appear as witnesses before the subcommittee on Tuesday. Also scheduled to appear are the parents of three girls who claim they forced into prostitution facilitated by Backpage ads.
The report found that Lacey and Larkin retain control of Backpage through a series of shell companies, despite claims they sold to the a Dutch company for $600 million in 2014. The report also found that Backpage "sanitized" ads for illegal sex and sex with minors, editing out terms like "teen" or "Lolita" automatically or rejecting ads with certain terms.
The company also got some good news Monday: the U.S. Surpreme Court declined a hearing on a case filed by three Massachusetts women who sued Backpage.com, claiming they were forced into prostitution as minors by pimps who used the website. Lower courts had ruled that the 1996 Communications Decency Act protected Backpage and other online companies from criminal liability for content posted by people that use their sites.
Dart has long campaigned against Backpages, frequently using ads on the site to enact prostitution stings.
In 2015, Dart wrote a letter to MasterCard and Visa asking "as the Sheriff of Cook County, a father and a caring citizen" that the companies to stop processing transactions from the site, a move that prompted a lawsuit by Backpage accusing Dart of "coercive censorship."
(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2017. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
First published on January 10, 2017 / 8:43 AM
© 2017 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
©2022 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE - A man is charged with sexually assaulting two women at knifepoint last year at a South Side apartment building.
Jesse Lee, 24, is facing two counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault with a weapon in attacks that occurred about a month apart at a seemingly vacant apartment in the West Englewood neighborhood, Cook County prosecutors said.
Lee contacted both women through the advertising website Backpage.com and arranged to meet them in the 6300 block of South Hoyne, prosecutors said.
A 26-year-old woman met Lee on Oct. 19, 2017 outside the apartment, where he was waiting for her to arrive, prosecutors said. He led her to the apartment, which she told investigators appeared empty except for a mattress.
Lee then took out a pocket knife and threatened the woman while taking her iPhone and then sexually assaulting her, prosecutors said. When she tried to escape, she found the door was padlocked and chained. He choked her, cut her arms with the knife and threatened to shoot her.
When she was allowed to leave, she called a friend, sought treatment at a hospital and reported the attack to police.
The second incident happened about a month later.
A 21-year-old woman met Lee outside the apartment on Nov. 18 and he led her to the rear of the building, prosecutors said. He then shocked her with a stun gun and choked her. While holding her at knifepoint, he stole her money and cellphone and sexually assaulted her. She also sought treatment after the attack and reported it to police.
Sometime after the second attack, the 26-year-old woman purchased a new phone and saw that Lee had been using the phone he stole from her. She found photos of Lee uploaded to her iCloud account, authorities said. When he was taken into custody Saturday at his home in the Rogers Park neighborhood he was still in possession of the cellphone.
Lee was previously convicted of a 2011 armed robbery, sentenced to six years in prison and paroled in August 2016, prosecutors said.
He was denied bail and scheduled to return to court Feb. 28.
All the news you need to know, every day
By clicking Sign Up, I confirm that I have read and agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service .
This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2022 FOX Television Stations
Sensual Massage St Louis
Backpage Bx Ny
The Other Board Denver