Nationwide Sting Operation Targets Illegal Asian Brothels, Six Indicted for Racketeering
PORTLAND, Ore.—A federal grand jury in Oregon has returned two indictments charging six people with running sex trafficking organizations operating in the U.S., Canada and Australia. The indictments were unsealed today following a series of arrests by FBI Portland’s Child Exploitation Task Force (CETF) resulting from a multi-district takedown operation on Tuesday, January 15, 2019.
Copies of the indictments against two of the individuals are available as PDF files from the above link.
I don't know if AdList24.com provided an open advertising platform or just for its own affiliates of the supermatchescort.com business - may have looked and behaved like a classifieds site but not actually been a bona fide one. I don't know as I never knew of the site before you posted it.
However, https://locanto.com.au provides personals ads that have plenty of sex for sale. Often the providers run out of AirBNB or Motel rooms and are not licensed prostitution providers in Australian jurisdictions. Often they are Asian, I assume some of them may be trafficked.
Dodgy massage parlours outnumber brothels in many Australian cities.
Sex trafficking needs to be addressed everywhere but shutting down classifieds sites (unless actually complicit) is a bridge too far in my opinion.
Agreed. It obviously takes place, but the media and many anti-prostitution NGOs deliberately exaggerate the scale, and then take a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
They are trying the same thing with sex cam work, claiming that most of the girls are doing it involuntarily and are enslaved by pimps. Wouldn't be surprised if adult webcam domains are being seized by the FBI in ten or twenty years time.
Agreed. It obviously takes place, but the media and many anti-prostitution NGOs deliberately exaggerate the scale, and then take a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
They are trying the same thing with sex cam work, claiming that most of the girls are doing it involuntarily and are enslaved by pimps. Wouldn't be surprised if adult webcam domains are being seized by the FBI in ten or twenty years time.
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