Washington DC Escorts: Three charged in human trafficking crackdown
Written on March 5, 2010 – 2:01 pm | by hookerlooker
Three charged in human trafficking crackdown
By: Scott McCabe
Examiner Staff WriterMarch 3, 2010
Montgomery County police have made human trafficking arrests in three cases in which they said pimps used Facebook or Craigslist to recruit teenage girls and solicit business.
One suspect ran a web design business in New York. A Maryland man had an Internet escort service that authorities say was a front for prostitution and human trafficking, and a D.C. man was charged with trying to recruit a 16-year-old girl he met on a social networking site
“The Internet has become the modern day track,” said Sgt. Ken Penrod, referring to the street corners where men traditionally cruise looking for prostitutes. “We just want people to know that it is occurring, that they’re using sites like MySpace to recruit your child.”