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To be sure that the internet is a place where girls and women and others are not sold online. one quick story, we had a person testify at our hearing whose daughter had been missing for nine months. she calls backpage because someone tells her that she ought to look on that site for her daughter, which she does. she finds a photo of her daughter, 14-year-old girl. she calls and says, oh, my gosh, nine months after my daughter going missing, i've found her on your site. thank you for closing down that ad and the response she got from backpage, did you pay for the ad? she said, this is my daught...

It talks about a website that i had not heard of called back page. maybe everybody else has. what did you discover about back page and why you think it's important to focus on this and if i could ask, do you think the new attorney general, jeff sessions, will be as focused on human trafficking as you have been? >> first, it's an incredibly important issue. unfortunately, human trafficking and specifically sex trafficking of minors is something that's grown over the last several years and one reason is the internet. as survivors have told me, you know, we've moved from street corner to the inte...

Ruined the game. >> even master mico, the old school hustler from detroit, says the boom of online ads has made the game more risky for everyone by attracting more wannabe pimps, more deviant customers, and ever younger girls with absolutely no street savvy. >> i think there's a tendency now for little susie in the suburbs at 16 years old, she's online, oh, what's this, backpage, those girls look kind of cute. she has low self-esteem. she thinks that maybe she could, you know, fit in somewhere. next thing you know, hey, you want to make this money, blah, blah, blah. and a lot of them guys will...

In detroit, hunting and killing young women two at a time. >> when you add to that there was a connection between three of the four deceased to a website called backpage.com, the a-ha moment came very quickly in our investigation. >> recently, there have within two certainty incidences -- >> on december 26th chief godbee calls a press conference to alert the public to the clear and present danger of what the local media have now dubbed the backpage killer. >> there is an immediate danger. there is a person that's potentially preying on women of a specific age in their early 20s that have utili...

Murders in long island have reignited a national debate about the role of ad-based websites like backpage and redbook in facilitating the business of human trafficking. >> regardless of the disclaimers, regardless of the legalese that these sites hide behind, the reality is the resultant behavior is illegal. >> while many men view the smiling women in online sex ads as independent contractors selling their wares, bridgette carr says americans need to wake up and face reality. >> what do you see when you see a young teenager advertising online? >> i see what really happens in the background, wh...