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They sited it as a place where they found these victims. do you think shutting down these sites will help or do you think it pushes the commerce elsewhere? >> it does. sex trafficking is a $32 billion a year business worldwide. the number one offend and buyer of sex trafficking, particularly with children is the united states. were a first world country but the biggest offender. it so it is about the commerce but my hat goes off to the fbi and those 230 local and state agencies who partnered up ...

Also know which alleged pimps seem to be moving prostitutes from city to city and state to state. >> this took place across the country, doesnt it? >> yeah, its incredible. 76 different cities all across the country. there were some smaller cities like jackson, mississippi who knew theres such a problem there. >> appreciate the reporting. want to bring john walsh, the former host of americas most wanted. the fbi specifically cited backpage.com, and sites like it, as a place where they found some...

>> yeah, its incredible. 76 different cities all across the country. there were some smaller cities like jackson, mississippi who knew theres such a problem there. >> appreciate the reporting. want to bring john walsh, the former host of americas most wanted. the fbi specifically cited backpage.com, and sites like it, as a place where they found some of these victims. do you think shutting down these kinds of sites helps solve the problem? there are those who argue it just pushes the commerce el...

When theres a child out there walking the streets and they also know which alleged pimps seem to be moving prostitutes from city to city and state to state. >> this took place across the country, doesnt it? >> yeah, its incredible. 76 different cities all across the country. there were some smaller cities like jackson, mississippi who knew theres such a problem there. >> appreciate the reporting. want to bring john walsh, the former host of americas most wanted. the fbi specifically cited back p...

Click of a mouse. from anal sex to oral sex to three on one, investigators say women and underaged girls are sold on websites like backpage. >> their entire site is existing so that traffickers and pimps can have a place to sell women. >> im fed up and im tired and this is going to stop. >> in 2009 cook county sheriff tom dart was part of the legal effort to shut down the erotic services section of craigslist. >> just calling to see if you have anything available for today. >> now his troops are...

Im probably like 15, 20 minutes from there. okay? >> the out of town target? a self-proclaimed sicilian latina hottie, alexis sweets, whose backpage ad promises men pleasure and delight for the night for $160 an hour. working as backup, officer bob follows decoy dan to an undisclosed location. >> then north to algonquin. >> all right, im just going to follow you. >> detective bob explains this in-call operation is a more complicated game of cat and mouse. the seller of sex is completely in charg...

Are no different than our children, and the reason that theyre doing what theyre doing now has a long history, and its an ugly history, and people need to understand that. you okay now? >> the task force in cook county is one of the more aggressive local law enforcement efforts aimed at both rescuing trafficked women and arresting the traffickers and johns who exploit them. >> whats going on at the hotels? we good? >> special operation leaders mike anton takes the lead. >> we do prostitution sti...

>> first of all, theres hundreds of sites out there. backpage has taken a hit because theyre the largest. theyre making millions of dollars off that. they know whats going on. theyve acknowledged whats going on. theyre not going to make an effort to stop it because theyre making so much money. >> the cook county task force also includes crisis counselors like brenda powell, a former prostitute, who now works the other side of the street, reaching out and offering guidance to girls and young wome...

$250. >> were coming in. >> officers quickly i.d. alexis sweets as 21-year-old chanel from california. >> and youre on backpage, right? you posted yourself? >> yes, sir. >> with the click of a mouse, internet website backpage makes it possible for this internet college student to sell herself 2,000 miles from home. >> youre under arrest for prostitution. were going to take you in. >> calm and cooperative, chanel claims she operates alone. >> how are you posting? >> either posting on that compute...

>> in 2009 cook county sheriff tom dart was part of the legal effort to stop down the erotic services section of craigslist. >> just calling to see if you have anything available for today. >> now his troops are taking aim at backpage, which he says makes millions from the misery of others. >> if we have a website that puts on hits for spouses. well, were not putting on the hits for the spouses. we just set up the website. we are then telling law enforcement. yeah, the problem is by the time we ...