20 Dec 2010 @ 10:24 PM 

Craigslist has caught heat in current years for permitting online ads for prostitution and “girlfriend experience” (GFE) to publish. Authorities have tried to crack down on this online sex trade, however as Bronx News accounts, such efforts are like trying to get rid of crabgrass. This time, authorities have intervened in a prostitution ring advertised on Craigslist Albany. Twenty-five-year-old Ross Campbell, a previous utility worker, has been arrested for pimping out young women via the site. He faces up to 50 years in prison, accounts the Bronx News New York blog.

Offenses happening all through Craigslist Albany

On Craigslist Albany, Queens resident Campbell’s business involved sex trafficking, kidnapping, rape, and other criminal offenses that two “young” victims were involved in. This is what the Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson explains. This is the very first time in Bronx County that there has been an online-related conviction like this. This is also, under the 2007 New York Sex Trafficking statute, one of the first. All of Ross Campbell’s Craigslist Albany crimes, conserve for promoting prostitution, are classified as Class B felonies, punishable by up to 25 years in jail for each offense. It is possible for a consecutive term. It is more likely that a combined term will occur though.

Internet prostitution tales

Based on court documents, a 19-year-old woman testified that she came to the Bronx with her 3-year-old child under the impression that she would be living with Campbell, with whom she’d become romantically entangled. Campbell’s cousin rented an apartment, Daniel Ebron, where she had been moved to and told her child would be hurt or killed so she had been then “forced to engage in prostitution”. On Craigslist Albany, she ended up working as a prostitute. Eventually she got away with her son and ran. An additional time Campbell kidnapped an 18 year old and 19 year old. They were raped supposedly.

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Bronx News

bxnewsnet.blogspot.com/2010/11/utility-worker-charged-with-pimping.html

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 08 May 2010 @ 7:05 AM 

You can find almost anything you are looking for by shopping on the internet. It does not matter if you are looking for a solitaire engagement ring, green tea, or computer skins, you will find someone that is willing to sell any of them to you.

In many ways the internet has revolutionized the world. In almost any home in the world, there is some type of access to the internet. Even in third world countries, the use of the internet is bringing work to people that are able to make far more money than every before possible in their country through telecommuting.

Internet shopping has grown as the internet has grown. Twenty years ago, there was no internet shopping. In 1994 a start up bookstore called Amazon was begun. While not the first bookstore to sell books online, it has grown to be the largest online bookstore today.

In fact, 1994 seems to have been the time that many of the successful online shopping stores that are still available went live. Pizza Hut first started allowing customers to order their pizza online during this time.

The internet giant, E-Bay did not begin until 1995. Their first sale was a broken laser pointer. It was sold to a collector. Now the site has grown very large and often offers mulit-million dollar items as well as those that will sell for under a dollar.

Although it grew slower at first, Craigslist began the same year as e-Bay. That service now serves almost six hundred cities in fifty different countries.

If you need groceries, but do not want to leave the house, just enter your order online at several of the grocery retailer sites and they will be delivered within hours if you live in a major city.

Even if the old computer is going on the fritz, it only takes going online one more time to order a new system. Dell, manufacturers of computers since the 1980s got their real boost in popularity once they began selling computers on their web stite in 1996.

Today, you can buy almost anything you are shopping for online. Groceries to computers are available as are used cars to top soil. Whatever it is that you seek, it only takes the use of a search engine to find it.

Today security in a shopping site is of utmost concern. Most retail sites have beefed up security and Paypal offers services that keep you from having to give a credit card number to an online retailer. Online shopping will probably continue to grow over time. There may be a time that many of the big box stores become warehouses that are shipping headquarters for online shopping outlets.

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