Prosecutors want crackdown on websites selling illegal sex

CATHY BUSSEWITZ, Associated Press

 

HONOLULU (AP) — Prosecutors from around the world say the fight against sex trafficking is moving online as traffickers use popular websites to advertise sexual services.

 

They talked Friday about how they can crack down on the problem at an international sex trafficking summit in Waikiki that drew prosecutors from Asia, the U.S. and Canada.

 

The challenges each nation faces are similar, and victims are often unwilling to cooperate with investigators because they've endured a history of abuse, said Jackie Lacey, Los Angeles County's district attorney.

 

"Most of this is underground," Lacey said. "It's not like in the '80s and '90s where women were on the street. It's all done by social media, cellphones, emails, text messages."

 

Michael Ramos, president of the National District Attorneys Association, said he plans to push for legislation in the United States to make it illegal to use websites to solicit illegal sex and to hold internet companies accountable for sex trafficking that occurs on their platforms.

 

"There should be some place that says you need to do a better job with the content that's on your promotional site," Ramos said. "It's just so easy right now ... Instead of having prostitutes out on the corner like they used to in a red light district, now they just go online, they hit a button, and it's like ordering a pizza."

 

Other law enforcement officers, such as Honolulu Prosecutor Keith Kaneshiro, said websites that allow sex ads have helped officers catch traffickers by identifying locations where there's a problem.

 

Sonia Paquet, a Canadian prosecutor, talked about how prostitution is illegal but there's little enforcement. She said online reviews of establishments are out in the open, and she pulled up one on her phone.

 

"If we go on the internet site, we see the girls naked," Paquet said. "They are from everywhere around the world."

 

Prosecutors form Canada, China, Japan, Palau, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand attended the summit. American prosecutors attended from more than a dozen states including Arkansas, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New York, Nevada, Oregon, Virginia, Washington and Washington D.C.

 

 

-- © Associated Press 2016-10-01

It's called p-ssing into the wind.

9 minutes ago, Krataiboy said:

It's called p-ssing into the wind.

 

Yes, but I'm sure they had a stay in a nice hotel and dinner with plenty of booze.

 

We were born with a sex drive and weed grows out of the ground naturally.. why criminalize everything?

Oh, I forgot...government asset seizures and privatized for profit prisons...

This should make 98.5% of TV members ecstatic.   

surely if they are advertising online it should be easy to actually catch them. why shut down the websites? send in the undercover johns with marked bills and save the girls and catch the pimps. what am i missing here?

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websites selling illegal sex   '' .... Which websites sell legal sex ?

34 minutes ago, JetsetBkk said:

 

Yes, but I'm sure they had a stay in a nice hotel and dinner with plenty of booze.

 

 

And probably surfed the web for a bit of company.

The internet is AWESOME !

23 minutes ago, Glumpy said:

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websites selling illegal sex   '' .... Which websites sell legal sex ?

fortunately, there are plenty of countries where selling sex is legal.

47 minutes ago, williamgeorgeallen said:

surely if they are advertising online it should be easy to actually catch them. why shut down the websites? send in the undercover johns with marked bills and save the girls and catch the pimps. what am i missing here?

Of course, in many cases the women really have no wish to be "saved", and also in many cases they are so savvy not to let themselves been robbed or threatened by pimps.

Sending in undercover cops with marked bills helps the criminals by making criminals of "social workers".

Can I conclude you are missing a lot?

 

I,m OK, I,ve never paid for illegal sex.....honestly

They already got 66 year old man in Costa Rica. Interesting story

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If they actually do this then rape cases will surely go up. 

2 hours ago, hansnl said:

Of course, in many cases the women really have no wish to be "saved", and also in many cases they are so savvy not to let themselves been robbed or threatened by pimps.

Sending in undercover cops with marked bills helps the criminals by making criminals of "social workers".

Can I conclude you are missing a lot?

 

no i was actually poking fun at the world making a big deal about prostitution. politicians have to look like they are stopping prostitution to get the female vote. it is a victim less crime. why shut down the websites? better the solicit online than having them walking around on the streets looking for customers.

All the crime (internet crime) - corruption - fraud - terrorism in the world and this is the best these prosecutors can do? What a sorry lot!

7 hours ago, williamgeorgeallen said:

surely if they are advertising online it should be easy to actually catch them. why shut down the websites? send in the undercover johns with marked bills and save the girls and catch the pimps. what am i missing here?

A life!

'Never heard of the dark web I guess.  Sex being sold there is and should be the very LEAST of their enforcement problems or priorities unless we're talking about child trafficking.   Yeah, they took down the Silk Road, and other websites immediately sprouted like weeds to take its place.

 

8 hours ago, alofthailand said:

A life!

i am 42 and retired in thailand with my family. life is good.

28 minutes ago, williamgeorgeallen said:

i am 42 and retired in thailand with my family. life is good.

how can you retire in Thailand officially at 42, something amiss here.

Just now, soalbundy said:

how can you retire in Thailand officially at 42, something amiss here.

O visa. i have 2 thai kids. but can still have the elite visa if you dont have kids.

2 minutes ago, williamgeorgeallen said:

O visa. i have 2 thai kids. but can still have the elite visa if you dont have kids.

nice looking kids

how can you retire in Thailand officially at 42, something amiss here.

im 41 years old and was 38 last time I worked ... I'm officially retired since then but im a Non-O also

3 minutes ago, soalbundy said:

nice looking kids

thanks. funny thing is my girl and i are very average looking but the kids seem to have turned out pretty good. 

Just now, LburtonL said:

im 41 years old and was 38 last time I worked ... I'm officially retired since then

Lucky you, i had to wait until i was 57

1 minute ago, williamgeorgeallen said:

thanks. funny thing is my girl and i are very average looking but the kids seem to have turned out pretty good. 

Thai falang mixture is always good, the female teacher of my 9 year old son has called him heart breaker of the year

Why not make all the websites illegal, and enforce the law rigidly? Stop all 'escort" ads in magazine's and newspapers?

 

Drive it all underground and pretend, just like in Victorian times, that it no longer exists. That should do it. All those PC liberal LGBT luvvies could pat themselves on the back publicly for stopping it and then sneak off to indulge in it. And just like the Victorians, no problem as long as you're not caught.

 

What a load of two faced hypocrites.

38 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

Why not make all the websites illegal, and enforce the law rigidly? Stop all 'escort" ads in magazine's and newspapers?

 

Drive it all underground and pretend, just like in Victorian times, that it no longer exists. That should do it. All those PC liberal LGBT luvvies could pat themselves on the back publicly for stopping it and then sneak off to indulge in it. And just like the Victorians, no problem as long as you're not caught.

 

What a load of two faced hypocrites.

 

what I have trouble understanding is why it should be stopped in the first place

Guy's, I know it is nice and we are all proud of our kids but my own personal feeling is that you should refrain from posting pics of your children on an anonymous internet forum. Just saying.

 

We have no idea who is on this forum and anyone skilled in photoshop can now literally do anything with the photos.

Edited October 2, 20169 yr by Andaman Al

That's half the internet wiped out then.