Taking Down Backpage: Fighting the World's Largest Sex Trafficker Krell Maggy

Insider details from the takedown of Backpage, the world's largest sex trafficker, by the prosecutor who led the chargeFor almost a decade, Backpage.com was the world's largest sex trafficking operation. Reaping a cut off every transaction, the owners of the website raked in millions of dollars. Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, in 800 cities throughout the world, Backpage ran thousands of listings advertising the sale of vulnerable young people for sex.

Beginning with her early career as a young DA, she shares the evolution of the anti-human But many of the people in the advertisements were children, as young as 12, and forced into the commercial sex trade through fear, violence and coercion.In Taking Down Backpage, veteran California prosecutor Maggy Krell tells the story of how she and her team prevailed against this sex trafficking monolith.