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NY lawsuit targets shuttered sex marketplace Backpage

by Associated Press
| January 22, 2020 12:05 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who says she was exploited for years starting at age 12 by a sex trafficker who used the shuttered website Backpage.com to sell her is suing the founders of the site under New York's Child Victims Act, which loosened the statute of limitations for child sex abuse.

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