Bruised toddler home alone in locked closet:

Mom who left son in closet advertised herself as an escort:

The lady over there with the curious blemishes on her face is 21-year-old Corinna Davis of Mesa, Arizona.

A West Mesa Justice Court constable was serving an eviction notice on the residence however no one appeared to be home. However the constable found a chair wedged up against a door. when he removed the chair he found a 2-year-old boy on a mattress in the closet.

Davis claims the boy was in there while she 'worked'. Her work seems to be as an 'escort' that advertises on the Village Voice Media owned backpage.com. She must not have been too good at that job since she was being evicted or maybe the money went somewhere else.

Do you think that sore is from meth or the herp?

By the way you wouldn't think that the 2-year-old locked in a closet is a victim of the victimless crime would you?

Update on Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 2:44AM by Trench Reynolds

It seems she may have been 'escorting' out of the residence as well.

Prostitution sting nets seven arrests:

Police in Columbia, Missouri arrested 7 women in a backpage.com hooker sting. Again I could care less about their names anymore but since the paper was able to provide us with mugshots I am required to give my mugshot commentary.

#1 kind of looks like Heather Locklear on meth, #2 is the undead, #4 is someone's grandmother, and 5 and 7 need to layoff the sharpies.

And yet again while government officials are jumping all over craigslist the Village Voice Media owned backpgae is still flying under the radar.

Tea woman accused in sex traffic ring released to father:

I originally posted about Megan Hayes here. Along with her boyfriend, Brandon Quincy Thompson, the pair from Tea, South Dakota have been federally charged with pimping out underage girls on  the Village Voice Media owned classified site Backpage. The pair are looking at life sentences for their alleged acts.

So it kind of puzzles me why Hayes was released into the custody of her father in Davenport, Iowa.

Hayes has no prior criminal history, and her father, brother and a neighbor from Tea testified that Hayes was a shy, reliable person who prefers staying home with pets to leaving the house.

I'm sorry but shy and reliable people don't participate in child prostitution rings. I wouldn't be surprised if she bolted while out on release.

Sex trafficking case heats up online-ads flap:

This article is a follw up about Brandon Quincy Thompson, 26, and his girlfriend Megan Marie Hayes, 30, of Tea, South Dakota who have been charged in federal court for sex trafficking on backpage. They pleaded not guilty in court this past week but that's not what I want to talk about.

The article details the 'changes' that craigslist has gone through and also details one Philip Markoff who the media dubbed the craigslist killer. However I want to share a few quotes with you.

Backpage.com, a site based in Scottsdale, Ariz., and owned by Village Voice media, has yet to implement such changes. The site has 1.7 to 2.2 million unique page views each month. Representatives of the company did not return calls for comment.

Free-speech advocates argue for self-policing, saying too many ads are posted to expect forum owners to monitor each one.

"The notion is that the soapbox shouldn't be held responsible for what the person on the soapbox says," said Matt Zimmerman, a lawyer with the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Just because the law protects them doesn't make it right. No matter what anybody says no one can tell me that craigslist and backpage aren't at least partially responsible for the child prostitution and human trafficking that takes place on their sites. After all they do provide sections on their sites dedicated to it. They're not called the human trafficking sections but they might as well be.

And all it would btake is to remove some code from their websites.

Tea couple accused of sex trafficking involving underage girls:

Brandon Quincy Thompson, 26, and his girlfriend Megan Marie Hayes, 30, of Tea, South Dakota have been federally charged with pimping out underage girls on backpage. Thompson and Hayes are both looking at life sentences.

For once a media outlet is finally calling backpage to task and backpage is acting familiar...

We contacted the BackPage Web site by email as to why such ads were being allowed on the site since they appeared to violate the terms of agreement. We have received no answer from the company.

It sounds like Village Voice Media is taking a page out of the book of craigslist.