Craigslist Under More Pressure Over Adult Ads

A day before a Craigslist official is scheduled to testify at a House hearing, a group of anti-sex trafficking experts sent a letter to company executives imploring them to shut down the site's erotic ads sections worldwide.

The letter is the latest salvo in a campaign waged against Craigslist aimed at forcing the online classifieds site to eliminate ads that critics say help promote sex trafficking. The effort gained national momentum in late August when a group of state attorneys general urged Craigslist to close the adult services section on its U.S. site. During July, two girls wrote Craigslist with the same message, saying they had been forced into sex trafficking because of an ad posted on the site. In response, Craigslist earlier this month shut down the U.S. adult services section, but anti-sex trafficking groups say the site hasn't gone far enough and must eliminate similar ads at its foreign sites as well.