Attorney General Maura Healey, who vowed to make fighting human trafficking and giving victims the services they need priorities, yesterday filed a brief in support of a lawsuit filed by three women who allege they were sold for sex on Backpage.com when they were as young as 15.
In a brief filed in U.S. District Court in Boston, Healey argues that websites such as Backpage should not be immune from liability under the Communications Decency Act for content posted by third parties.
"To find that the CDA preempts state law and shields Backpage from liability would unreasonably and unnecessarily undermine state laws," her brief argues. "It would also allow Backpage and others like it to break the law with impunity, deprive victims of adequate remedies for the harms inflicted on them and impede effective law enforcement. Certainly this is not the result Congress intended."
Liz McDougall, Backpage's general counsel, said she had no comment on pending litigation. "However," she added in an email to the Herald, "...allegations — by whomever — are still only allegations."
In their lawsuit, Doe v. Backpage.com LLC, the three women allege that they were recruited by sex traffickers, advertised on the website and then repeatedly sold for sex in various locations across Massachusetts.
Anda sedang membaca artikel tentang
AG backs suit vs. Backpage
Dengan url
http://cintabersemian.blogspot.com/2015/02/ag-backs-suit-vs-backpage.html
Anda boleh menyebar luaskannya atau mengcopy paste-nya
AG backs suit vs. Backpage
namun jangan lupa untuk meletakkan link
sebagai sumbernya
0 komentar:
Posting Komentar