On Friday, the feds seized a despicable website known as Backpage.com and charged its founder with 93 counts related to human trafficking. If you’ve never heard of the site, congratulations. That’s probably a sign that you’re a good person. Backpage was a bowels-of-the-internet message board where pimps and sex workers could post advertisements designed to sell themselves, their prostitutes, and – in some cases – children.
Yes, you read that right. There were ads to purchase the “services” of kids. …And those posts often used terms like “Amber Alert” as a selling point.