Women Charged with Trafficking Teen Girl:

33-year-old Elizabeth Roeder of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and 41-year-old Shannon Hathaway of Stoughton, Wisconsin were both arrested in River Grove, Illinois for allegedly prostituting a 17-year-old girl on Backpage. They were caught by Cook County detectives who were working a prostitution sting. Cook County is one of the jurisdictions who have been taking an active role in fighting online sex trafficking since the days of craigslist.

While sex trafficking is a crime usually run by men it’s not uncommon for women to be traffickers and pimps as well. Don’t call them ‘madams’ because that makes them sound classy and there’s nothing classy about trafficking children for sex. Women traffic can be just as violent and vicious as the men if not more so in some cases.

And as usual Backpage continues to make money hand over fist from cretins like this.