Backpage Website Sued Over Teen Girl's Death

MARKHAM, IL -- Backpage.com, a website known as a haven for users to advertise prostitution, has been sued once again. This time it’s in connection to the death of a 16-year-old Chicago girl who was found in a pool of blood in a garage in Markham last Christmas Eve.

Yvonne Ambrose, the mother of Desiree Robinson, filed the suit last week in Cook County Circuit Court and alleged that the website is responsible for the death of her daughter a Daily Southtown report indicates.

The lawsuit alleges that Backpage.com created “an online marketplace” for child sex traffickers and that an ad featuring Robinson was posted on the website before she was killed.

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"Backpage.com has made it too easy for sex traffickers, pimps and predators to hurt and target children like Desiree Robinson, and continues to do so to this day," an attorney representing Ambrose said.

Anthony Rosales, a 32-year-old man who allegedly found Robinson’s information on the site and exchanged money for sex with her, has been charged with murder in her death. Previous reports indicate Robinson and Rosales had exchanged sex for money twice in one night and that Rosales killed Robinson after Robinson refused to give Rosales an extra 15 minutes for free.

The lawsuit indicates two men helped set up the encounter between Rosales and Robinson.

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