Terry Johnson III
For the briefest of moments Tony Ortega had the attention of the nation. It came in the midst of a flurry of allegations that his employers at Backpage knowingly turned a blind eye to the epidemic of child sex trafficking that was taking place on the online platform built for unscrupulous pimps to sell marginalized women for sex.
Tony Ortega used this spotlight, not to decry the injustice of coerced prostitution of the vulnerable but to attack the growing number justifiably outraged men, women, institutions and authorities who dared to call Backpage what it was — the largest illegal sex ring the world had ever seen, trading the lives of young women and underage girls to make a fast buck.
In the minds of many Backpage has become synonymous with sex trafficking. And yet, as we have attempted to demonstrate here on the blog, the crimes of this deplorable organization go far beyond selling children and vulnerable young women to online predators for sex.
This week, news emerged of a story involving a couple accused of murdering a man in Oklahoma.The couple had been lurking on Backpage-inspired prostitution sites in the weeks and even days leading up to his death.
Recently on the blog we took a long, hard look back at the timeline surrounding the rise and fall of Backpage.com. Today we’re turning back time to dive into a shocking example of exactly the sort of evil Backpage was up to during the years its own in-house propagandist, Tony Ortega, was so ferociously attacking any and all who would call for justice for the site’s countless victims.
Pictured bellow is Natalie, an innocent child with dreams of being a doctor before Backpage got its hooks into her — tearing her and her family apart.
