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Charged with human trafficking because escorts post ads on his site. This is ridiculous. Time to get rid of these puritan laws. If I want to pay a girl for sex I should be able to pay a girl for sex. We spend money on sex anyway. It's called dating!
The CEO of an Dallas-based adult website that generates millions of dollars annually from its classified sex ads has been arrested in Houston, according to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Carl Ferrer, CEO of Backpage.com, was taken into custody on a California arrest warrant after he arrived in Houston Thursday.
A long joint investigation by the Texas and California attorneys general offices uncovered evidence that adult and child sex trafficking victims were forced into prostitution through escort ads that appeared often on Backpage.
Nearly three dozen members of the Texas Attorney General’s Law Enforcement Unit participated in Ferrer’s arrest and the execution of a search warrant on the Dallas headquarters of Backpage, which is considered the largest advertiser of adult escort services in the United States.
“Making money off the backs of innocent human beings by allowing them to be exploited for modern-day slavery is not acceptable in Texas,” Attorney General Paxton said in a statement. “I intend to use every resource my office has to make sure those who profit from the exploitation and trafficking of persons are held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”
The CEO of an Dallas-based adult website that generates millions of dollars annually from its classified sex ads has been arrested in Houston, according to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Carl Ferrer, CEO of Backpage.com, was taken into custody on a California arrest warrant after he arrived in Houston Thursday.
A long joint investigation by the Texas and California attorneys general offices uncovered evidence that adult and child sex trafficking victims were forced into prostitution through escort ads that appeared often on Backpage.
Nearly three dozen members of the Texas Attorney General’s Law Enforcement Unit participated in Ferrer’s arrest and the execution of a search warrant on the Dallas headquarters of Backpage, which is considered the largest advertiser of adult escort services in the United States.
“Making money off the backs of innocent human beings by allowing them to be exploited for modern-day slavery is not acceptable in Texas,” Attorney General Paxton said in a statement. “I intend to use every resource my office has to make sure those who profit from the exploitation and trafficking of persons are held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”
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