An Outdated Child Protection Law is Playing A Key Role in the Growth of a Global Marketplace For Child Sex Trafficking On The Internet

An Outdated Child Protection Law is Playing A Key Role in the Growth of a Global Marketplace For Child Sex Trafficking On The Internet

Every day in America children are being sold for sex.  Globally more than 1.8 million children are used in commercial sex.  Trafficking has largely moved from the streets to the Internet where a flourishing global marketplace for child sex trafficking has emerged.  The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children is joining 47 of the nation's Attorneys General in calling on the U.S. Congress to make a minor change to the Communications Decency Act (CDA) that was passed in 1996 to help address this problem.  They are asking for a two-word change that would enable state and local governments to pursue criminal action against online classified advertising sites suspected of being involved in prostitution.