Justice of the Peace....or Justice...OF MURDER!?
According to the USDOJ, in 2005, 757 Americans were murdered by the person they were married to. How many of those people used the internet to arrange their weddings is much harder to calculate. However, a cursory search of the internet turns up numerous websites shamelessly devoted to peddling the services of matrimony panderers (or, to use the
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http://www.laweekly.com/2009-05-07/news/craigslist-killer/
The 2nd covers the Donna Jou murder; she was killed by a man--who was also a convicted sex offender--who had answered her for math tutoring ad on CraigsList.
http://www.laweekly.com/2009-05-07/news/8220-but-for-craigslist-donna-might-be-alive-today-8221/
What irritates me the most about this all is the implication that without CraigsList, and by extension the whole internet, then rape, murder and prostitution would not exist. This idiocy sums it all up with Gloria Allred's statements:
“But for Craigslist, Donna might be alive today,” Allred says. “She most likely never would have met Mr. Burgess without it.”
Allred thinks that Craigslist should implement measures to detect sex offenders who use the site and either block their postings or warn others about whom they’re dealing with. The Weekly’s calls to Craig Newmark and other Craigslist spokespeople were not returned.
“[Donna’s] parents want to do whatever they can to prevent something like this from happening ever again,” Allred says. “I would hope and expect that Mr. Newmark would reach out to the family to express his condolences, and to have a conversation with the family as to how this occurred and what steps he plans to take, if any, to prevent this in the future. If he takes no such steps, I think it’s highly probable that there will be other such meetings of innocent victims with predators, with tragic results.”
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