Apts? Furniture? Used Cars? Human Slaves? Craigslist- the smarter way to shop!

Most people are familiar with Craigslist, the online Web community where people post job opportunities, and items for sale. Over the past years, Craigslist has grown and now has Web sites in over 300 cities across the U.S. Despite its millions of users and various social benefits, there’s a different side of Craigslist that most users don’t see. In the “Erotic” or "Adult" sections, human traffickers have found Craigslist to be one of the most well organized, effective, and free ways to post children and women for sale.

Don’t fool yourself into thinking that slavery is a thing of the past, part of the terrible history of the formation of the United States. Slavery is alive and well today. Twenty-seven million people are currently enslaved. So next time you log onto craiglist and come across a sexual advertisement, think to yourself: you are not for sale, I am not for sale, and no one should be for sale.

A group of government, law enforcement, and non-government agencies already track human trafficking schemes, on the Internet and on the streets. These agencies include the U.S. Department of Justice Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit, DOJ Child Exploitation and Obscenities Section, DOJ Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforces and, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Organizations and agencies like these are doing their best to keep people from being sexually victimized. Human Trafficking is a crime.