Teens allege the site profited while they were used for prostitution. July 30, 2012 — -- Three Washington teenagers have filed a personal injury lawsuit against the classified ad website Backpage ...
PHOENIX (AZFamily) — In federal court, sex workers who advertised their services on the now-defunct website “Backpage” are ...
The Backpage.com URL now redirects to MILFS.com, a webcamming platform that offers users live erotic chat and pornographic shows with a cornucopia of women who may or may not actually be moms. In case ...
Federal and state authorities Friday seized Backpage.com, an online classifieds site frequently accused of facilitating sex trafficking, and reportedly indicted seven people. A notice on Backpage’s ...
A federal jury deadlocked on prostitution-related charges filed against former New Times editor Michael Lacey, but found him guilty Thursday of a financial crime related to the classified advertising ...
A bipartisan group of 47 lawmakers – almost half of the Senate – is co-sponsoring a bill to close what it sees as a loophole that supports an online market for sex trafficking. They want to remove ...
“Nightline” has been conducting an investigation for over a year. — -- “Those children were sold, and they simply tried to sanitize it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the definition of evil”, ...
A contractor for Backpage.com has been aggressively soliciting and creating sex-related ads for the sleazy classified ad site, according to a trove of newly discovered documents. The explosive new ...
PHOENIX — Michael Lacey, a founder of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com, was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison and fined $3 million for a single money laundering count in a ...
Reporting from Washington — In the climax of a fight that pitted foes of sex trafficking against advocates of free internet speech, the Justice Department on Friday seized the Backpage.com website and ...
Anti-trafficking advocates and survivors are trying to get the word out that victims can file for funds forfeited from the site seized by the authorities in 2018.
Lawyers for the founders of classifieds site Backpage.com told jurors Wednesday that the ads published by their clients were controversial but protected by the First Amendment, after prosecutors said ...