By Morse Diggs, FOX 5 reporter ATLANTA - More than 300 girls each month in Georgia are being pulled into the sex for cash business. Advocates say that although the young people are being forced to look the part — dressed in high heels and skin tight clothing — they are children who need to be rescued. The sex market which targets vulnerable girls is driven by two things: money and the appetites of some men. .... READ MORE
The backlash against Village Voice Media’s ownership of Backpage.com continues with a group of high-profile musicians speaking out against the controversial website of online classifieds accused of enabling sex-trafficking. Alicia Keys, members of Pearl Jam and Alabama Shakes, and Talib Kweli are just a few of the musicians rallying for Village Voice to shutdown the classifieds. REM’s bassist Mike Mills said in a statement: Village Voice Media has a history of being a strong advocate for the arts,.... READ MORE
By JOE JOHNSON - joe.johnson@onlineathens.com Published Saturday, May 5, 2012 She ran away from her Fulton County home and met Archie Richard Byrd, who gave her food and shelter and probably even bought clothes and jewelry to make her feel loved and special. But eventually, Byrd likely told the teen that she needed to help support the other girls and women in the home he gave them — by selling her body to strange men. If he followed the M.O..... READ MORE
By Amy Napier Viteri CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — A local sheriff’s office has a warning about a website that they say has become a haven for criminals. Channel 2′s Amy Napier Viteri sat down with the grandmother of a young Clayton County woman whom she said was lured into prostitution through the site. “We were devastated. We were absolutely so shocked and so surprised,” the grandmother said. She told Viteri she found photographs of her 19-year-old granddaughter.... READ MORE
By Christopher Seward The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A Chicago man was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for traveling to Alpharetta to have sex with an 11-year-old girl, telling her mother he wanted to be the child’s “naughty grandpa and her naughty daddy.” What Michael Isacson, 67, didn’t know, however, was that the woman posing as the fictitious child’s mother was an undercover FBI agent, federal prosecutors said. Isacson gave the mother instructions on how to order.... READ MORE
By Angel K. Brooks The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Two DeKalb County men were indicted Thursday on charges related to pimping and exploiting children, the District Attorney’s Office announced. The grand jury returned an 18-count indictment against John William Anderson and Darryl Bearnard Curry. Curry is charged with keeping a place of prostitution for person under 18 and giving false information to a law enforcement officer. The charges against Anderson include trafficking of persons for sexual servitude, pimping.... READ MORE