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An Illinois man faces a federal charge after being accused of trying to prostitute two minors online.

Reginald Williams, 28, was arrested last week after St. Louis County police caught him in a sting, according to charging documents filed Monday.

Collinsville police originally received a tip Sept. 12 that Williams was prostituting a 16-year-old missing girl on the website Backpage.com, as well as another girl who turned out to be 17, according to an affidavit filed in court by FBI Special Agent Nikki Badolato.

Five gang members repeatedly raped four teenage girls, forced them to have sex for money at Atlanta-area hotels and beat one of the teens almost daily, federal authorities said.

"It just keeps getting worse, Tony. And it won't stop."

Village Voice Deathwatch 9.14.12

Dear Mr. Ortega:

For years now, you have been defending your company, Village Voice Media, for operating  backpage.com, by far the nation’s largest online trafficker in child prostitution.  You have excused this abomination with the lamest of arguments, all of which we have cited here for two years now.

Minneapolis Police sergeant Grant Snyder arguably has made more Village Voice Backpage pimp arrests than any law enforcement officer in the country.

If any law enforcement agency could let us know of any officer anywhere who has made close to the number of Sergeant Snyder’s arrests, we would appreciate it.  Otherwise, until notified, Sergeant Snyder is the unofficial, undisputed champion of Backpage.com arrests.

A Buffalo man man was arrested Thursday and charged with sex trafficking of minors.

Kenneth Graham, 24, of Amherst, N.Y., faces up to 10 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted.

According to the criminal complaint, between 2010 and August 2012, Graham recruited, promoted and profited from the prostitution activities of two minor girls knowing - or in reckless disregard of the fact - that the girls were under the age of 18. Graham also recruited, promoted and profited from a third victim, a woman in her 20s.