Craigslist has tried in vain to remain neutral, however all the unfavorable attention the online service, sales and personals message board has drawn due to illegal internet prostitution and "girlfriend experience" (GFE) ads may make it impossible for the police to allow them to operate in business-as-usual mode. It has proven nearly extremely hard for Craigslist to weed out all offending ads, reports Bronx News. Witness probably the most current case of an internet prostitution ring, piggybacking on Craigslist Albany. Twenty-five-year-old Ross Campbell, a previous utility worker, has been arrested for pimping out young women via the site. The alleged pimp could serve up to five decades in jail, according to the brand new York-based Bronx News legal blog. Article resource – Craigslist Albany pimp gets busted by Perso! nal Money Store.
Craigslist Albany had been a cover for several criminal offenses
According to Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson, Queens resident Campbell’s business on Craigslist Albany incorporated sex trafficking, kidnapping, rape and various other offenses involving two "young" victims. This is the very first time in Bronx County that there has been an online-related conviction like this. This is also, under the 2007 New York Sex Trafficking statute, one of the first. Ross Campbell will get 25 years in jail for each offence as all of the Craigslist Albany crimes were class B felonies, except for promoting prostitution. There will probably be a combined term although it’s possible for a consecutive term to take place.
The rumors about online prostitution
A 19 year old woman with a 3 year old went to the Bronx thinking that, since she had a romantic relationship with Campbell, she'd be residing with them, court docs say. She said she had been "forced to engage in prostitution" as they confronted her child would be hurt or killed otherwise. This was after she was relocated to an apartment that Daniel Ebron, or Campbell's cousin, rented. On Craigslist Albany, she wound up working as a prostitute. Ultimately she got away with her son and ran.
2 other victims, 18 and 19 years old, were kidnapped and raped too.
Articles cited
Bronx News
bxnewsnet.blogspot.com/2010/11/utility-worker-charged-with-pimping.html
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