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Shelley Seale is a freelance writer in Austin, Texas who is currently finishing a book about the twenty-five million children growing up in India without parents or homes - in orphanages or on the streets. …

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  • 1 - Joy

    Feb 18, 2008 at 11:43 am

    This is incredible and outrageous. More people should be aware, and we should all be writing to craigslist demanding that they monitor and stop this crime from happening on their site.

  • 2 - Franco

    Feb 18, 2008 at 1:06 pm

    Is not one of the fastest ways to provide protective aid to these children to report it to Child Protective Services?

  • 3 - Propagandist

    Feb 18, 2008 at 1:30 pm

    I'm sure it happens but this might be an alarmist view. Things like this can happen anywhere where people meet to buy and sell goods. Before the era of Craigslist, it probably happened with newspaper classifieds. There are other avenues such as private MIRC groups, coded messages elsewhere like personals that appear nonchalant, etc.
    It is a sick world but I dont think blaming craigslist will solve the problem.

  • 4 - Somanjana

    Feb 19, 2008 at 12:35 pm

    True, there are various avenues to garner child trafficking but friends, Craigslist has shaped up to be the most sought after medium to solicit prostitution because it's free, anonymous and the Web site's operators say they depend on viewers to police content. The wide reach and popularity of Craigslist makes the situation worse.

    FACTS
    1. Craigslist site exhibits local classifieds and forums for 450 cities worldwide, in all 50 US states and over 50 countries.

    2. Craigslist gets more than 8 billion page views per month.

    3. More than 25 million people each month use craigslist.

    4. Craigslist users self-publish more than 20 million new classified ads each month.

    5. Every 10 days there are 25,000 new ads posted in the erotic services section.

    I work with a Human-Rights organization named Love146. We have initiated a campaign called "Call to Action" to fight child sex trafficking and exploitation on Craigslist. For further information on the Craigslist campaign.

    For updates on child-sex trafficking and exploitation on Craigslist, please visit Love146's News Room.

  • 5 - Irene Wagner

    Feb 20, 2008 at 2:41 pm

    It doesn't take much more time to leave a brief protest note at
    Craigslist's website's email-posting facility
    than it does to leave a comment here. Thanks for your good work, Shelley Seale.

  • 6 - ai

    Mar 20, 2009 at 12:01 am

    there's more than one campaign to end slavery. check out freetheslaves.net and Kevin Bales's text Ending Slavery.

  • 7 - Hannah Varner

    Apr 23, 2009 at 1:53 pm

    Please watch this video!

  • 8 - Ms. wanderer

    Jun 26, 2009 at 2:45 pm


    Doesn't the fact that this is taking place online aid law enforcement in any way? It's going to go on regardless, unfortunately. It seem that if the selling of children is taking place online it provides an open portal to get to the root of the problem -- the traffickers.

    (Poor Craig, I'm sure he is as concerned about child sex trafficking as anyone.)

  • 9 - Mike

    Jul 27, 2009 at 10:34 am

    wow! I use craigs list all the time and I wasn't aware of this. Thanks for the info.

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