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Implausible and unbelieveable

February 3, 2012 in Backpage, Prostitution/Human Trafficking by Trench Reynolds | 11 comments

Suthers Demands Website Drops Sex Service Ads:

This is an article about Colorado Attorney General John Suthers and how he wants backpage to remove their adult ads. Same old posturing from Village Voice Media but there’s a quote in this article that I would like to show you that shows how attorneys operate on an entirely different plane than real people.

First Amendment attorney Tom Kelley, who does not represent Backpage.com, says they have protection under the Constitution and through communication laws.

“Unless it can be shown that the criminal activity is so blatantly advertised that denial of knowledge of what is going on is just implausible, unbelievable,” Kelley said.

I went to my local backpage under the escort section and this is the first ad I found…

IM SUPER SEXXI AND SUPER SUBMISSIVE…IM HOTT,READII,AND WAITING FOR YOU.. ABOUT ME:: *ClEaN *DiScReT & CoNfIdEnTiAl •MY DONATIONS-NON~NEGOTIABLE

***CALL NOW!!!!***HURRY SPL WONT LAST LONG DONT MISS OUT!!!

AVAIL.NOW **ATTN** SPLS FOR INCALLS ONLY!!!!

The ad is accompanied by pictures of a woman in lingerie.

How can anyone not say that this isn’t blatant? I would say that it would be implausible for backpage to deny what is obviously going on. Do they think she’s having incalls for cooking classes? Or is she a submissive yoga instructor?

Yet badly outdated laws like the 1996 Communications Decency Act allow backpage to continue to make money from what is obviously and blatantly prostitution and human trafficking. There are supposed to be laws that protect the victims but in this society you can see which of the two laws takes precedence.

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19-year-old backpage pimp beats woman pregnant with his child

January 20, 2012 in Backpage, Prostitution/Human Trafficking by Trench Reynolds | No comments

Javed M. Mobin

Burnsville man accused of prostituting woman pregnant with his child:

That outstanding citizen over there is 19-year-old Javed M. Mobin of Burnsville, Minnesota. Don’t let the age fool you as he’s being accused of a lot of very bad things.

Not only is he accused of forcing a woman to work for him as a prostitute on the Village Voice Media owned backpage.com he’s also accused of beating and choking her and threatening her with further violence if she didn’t continue working for him. The victim claims that she had been forced to work for him since July of 2011. Did I also mention that she’s seven months pregnant with his baby?

So let’s put this into perspective. A 19-year-old kid is forcing a woman to have sex with strangers, he is allegedly repeatedly physically assaulting her while she is pregnant with his baby. It doesn’t get much more disgusting than that.

Oh wait, yes it does. Village Voice Media is making money off of this woman’s suffering and claiming it’s a free speech issue. Yeah, that’s as disgusting as it gets.

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Detroit backpage murder victims ID’d.

January 4, 2012 in Backpage, Killers, Prostitution/Human Trafficking by Trench Reynolds | No comments

Vernithea McCrary

Another Detroit woman identified in escort investigation:

Again I apologize in my tardiness of posting these stories.

Anyway last week prior to the new year police in Detroit named one of the women who were found in the trunk of a burning car.

Police say they have identified one of the victims as 28-year-old Vernithea McCrary. As of the time of this article police had not released the name of the other victim found with her but family members believe it is 28-year-old Natasha Curtis. Both women were found burned beyond recognition. A cause of death has yet to be announced.

As mentioned before Detroit police believe that three of the four victims, the others being Renesha Landers and Denesha Hunt, were prostitutes that advertised on the Village Voice Media owned backpage.com. Backpage, being the slimy weasels they are, are quick to point out that multiple websites were involved. That’s like the pitbull defenders who say wiener dogs maul just as many people.

You’re the top dog now Backpage and you’re foaming at the mouth while your handlers say what a good dog you are. It’s only a matter of time before you’ll have to be put down.

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Backpage responds to Detroit murders (through their lawyer)

December 27, 2011 in Backpage, Killers, Prostitution/Human Trafficking by Trench Reynolds | 2 comments

Statement from Backpage.com representative on Detroit murders:

Backpage released a statement through one of their attorneys in reference to the recent murders in Detroit of Demesha Hunt, Renisha Landers and two unnamed women. Three of the victims are believed to have been prostitutes that were advertised on the Village Voice Media owned backpage.com.

Here is the statement in its entirety…

“After we heard about these terrible crimes, we reached out to the Detroit Police Department, even before we heard from them, to offer assistance in the investigation. Our team has already provided the police with detailed information about the ads that the suspect or others posted on numerous web sites.

“Law enforcement authorities now have evidence that the investigation appears to connect to at least 30 different ads or other postings on at least 15 different websites, separate and distinct from ours. We are not aware of the existence of any evidence that would indicate which of these many sites were used by the suspect to establish contact with his victims.

“We have a team of more than 100 content monitors and internet experts who will continue to cooperate with the investigation and provide as much helpful information as we can.

“Backpage.com shares the concerns of law enforcement and the community that every effort be made to stop violent criminals from using the internet to commit their crimes.

Backpage has developed strong cooperative relationships with front-line state and federal police agencies nationwide, assisting with sting operations, promptly responding to subpoenas, and otherwise aiding in the identification, apprehension and prosecution of criminals.

“We do our best to provide a safe and legal environment for our customers through aggressive content monitoring and sophisticated content filtration software.

We agree with a recent USC study that recommended leveraging online technologies and datadriven information in real time to detect and apprehend online criminals.

Steve Suskin
Legal Counsel
backpage.com

Pretty much exactly as I predicted.

For those of you who aren’t fluent in bullshit please allow me to translate for you.

*AHEM*

Since this is a PR nightmare for us we decided to call the Detroit police to see how much they know to see what we could exploit in our favor.

But it wasn’t just our website. There are other websites too. So we’re not so bad if other websites do it right?

We have a guy in India who we call a monitor but he doesn’t really do much.

By ‘cooperating’ with police we are trying to establish plausible deniability.

We have so much legal paperwork in our offices we’re drowning in them.

We pay a lot of lip service saying that we monitor the content of our site but not to the point where it would eat in to our profits.

But there can be a 1000 murders and we still won’t shut down the adult section. We’re all getting filthy rich from it.

Slimy McMouthpiece
Head Weasel
Classifieds site that makes its money from the trafficking of women and children.

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Did a Backpage serial killer murder 4 Detroit women?

December 26, 2011 in Backpage, Killers, Prostitution/Human Trafficking by Trench Reynolds | No comments

Renesha Landers and Denesha Hunt

3 women found dead linked to escort Web site, Detroit police say:

Bodies found in Detroit linked to online ads:

Detroit police chief says 4 murders related:

Within the last week four murdered women were found in the trunks of cars in Detroit, 3 of them were reported to be escorts on the Village Voice Media owned backpage.com.

The bodies of cousins Demesha Hunt, 24, and Renisha Landers, 23, were found in the trunk of a car in December 19th. On early Christmas morning two more women were found burnt beyond recognition in the trunk of a burning car. Their names have not yet been released. It has also not been made public yet which of the three women had ads on backpage. The causes of death have also not been released. However police do believe that the incidents are connected.

Not surprisingly Village Voice Media has not yet responded to media requests for comment. I’ll save you all some time. VVM will say something to the effect that those these deaths are regrettable they are working with law enforcement. Then they’ll stick in something about how their thinly veiled prostitution ads are a first amendment right and that they’re ability to make money off the women and children that are trafficked on their site trumps the right for these women to not be murdered. Not necessarily in those words but you get the idea.

Will this new national attention on backpage get VVM to reconsider their stance on the adult ads on backpage? As long as their making money hand over fist I seriously doubt it.

Thanks to Sue and Bonnie for the tips.

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WA man accused of pimping out disabled girl on backpage

December 7, 2011 in Backpage, Prostitution/Human Trafficking by Trench Reynolds | 1 comment

Prosecutors charge Kent man with promoting prostitution:

It’s bad enough when you turn out an 18-year-old girl as a prostitute on backpage but there’s a special place in hell for you when you do that to a learning disabled girl. That’s exactly what 24-year-old Walter Woods of Kent, Washington is accused of.

Not only did he allegedly turn the girl out on the Village Voice Media owned backpage but he kept all her money and turned her out on Thanksgiving day. The girl couldn’t even read or write.

Woods has a previous criminal record including charges of child luring.

I wonder if you asked backpage about this would they say that the police were violating Woods’ right to free speech?

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Albuquerque woman charged with backpage trafficking

November 14, 2011 in Backpage, Prostitution/Human Trafficking by Trench Reynolds | No comments

Heather Brannon

Albuquerque police make human trafficking arrest:

The Albuquerque police have been busy lately. This time they’ve arrested 33-year-old Heather Brannon and have charged her with human trafficking. Police say that she was turning out at least two women on the Village Voice Media owned backpage.com.

When the two women were arrested during a sting they allegedly said that Brannon forced them into prostitution because of a ‘debt’. This is a typical trick of traffickers. A lot of times they’ll bring illegals into the country and then make them work off their ‘debt’ by making them work as prostitutes but the debt never seems to ever be paid off.

This also goes to show a few things. The first is not all human traffickers are male. The next shows that the consenting adults phrase is just a myth. And lastly that Village Voice Media isn’t doing crap to combat trafficking on backpage.

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Yet another SeaTac backpage pimp busted

October 7, 2011 in Backpage, Prostitution/Human Trafficking by Trench Reynolds | No comments

Prosecutors: Violent Pimp Coerced Woman Into Prostitution On Backpage:

This time the alleged trafficking sucm is 22-year-old Allen Almarco Winston. No wonder these guys take street names. What the hell kind of name is Almarco? Anyway Winston is accused of pimping out his on again off again girlfriend on the Village Voice Media owned backpage.com. Of course police say that he physically assaulted her in order to get her to do so, And guess what kids. He’s already back out on the streets.

How much you want to bet that he’s probably already turned out someone else.

But hey, according to VVM this is their way of protecting The Constitution.

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Another SeaTac backpage pimp busted

October 7, 2011 in Backpage, Prostitution/Human Trafficking by Trench Reynolds | No comments

KC Prosecutors: Using Backpage.com, Pimp Forced Woman Into Prostitution:

Today’s contestant on SeaTac backpage pimp round-up is 23-year-old Lavelle Kenneth Johnson. He was arrested for allegedly forcing a woman into backpage prostitution by beating her and possibly raping her repeatedly. When Johnson was stopped by police in King County he had several different cell phones with one that was on the backpage.com log in screen.

But it’s all about backpage’s right to free speech right? Nevermind that they’re making their money from traffickers and rapists who are nothing more than modern-day slave traders. It’s all about backpage right?

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New York woman held captive and forced into backpage prostitution

August 18, 2011 in Backpage, Prostitution/Human Trafficking by Trench Reynolds | No comments

Henry Douglas

Cops: Woman held, forced into prostitution:

Police in Albany, New York have arrested 42-year-old Henry Douglas and 19-year-old Ciara Miller for allegedly holding a woman captive and forcing her into prostitution on the Village Voice Media owned backpage.com.

Police say that the victim was a friend of Miller’s and thought the pair was going out to party. Instead she took the woman to Douglas at a hotel room where she was held captive and was advertised for prostitution by Douglas on backpage. Douglas allegedly threatened the woman with violence if she did not comply and also threatened to kill her family. So much for consenting adults huh?

So while Village Voice Media pays lip service that they’re spending millions of dollars to combat the trafficking of children, allegedly, what are they doing to prevent victims like this being held against their will and being peddled on backpage? Oh, that’s right. Nothing.

The only way to combat that would be to shut down the adult sections which they’re obviously not going to do since the money made from that is more than likely propping up their failing company.

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