Atlanta child pimping on Craigslist is on rise
Craigslist.com continues to be a popular site in Atlanta for the sexual exploitation of girls despite law enforcement efforts to curtail it, an Atlanta group that fights child prostitution said Friday.
As recently as February, 176 girls were prostituted for sex on the popular Web-based advertising service, said the group A Future. Not A Past. That’s up from 100 girls advertised in November.
“It’s frightening to think more and more of our girls are being exploited over the Internet,” said Kaffie McCullough, the group’s campaign director. “We need stricter law enforcement, more stings, more arrests.”
(Read more at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)