Rape case increases Craigslist scrutiny
Published 5:00 am Friday, June 5, 2009
KANNAPOLIS, N.C. — Craigslist is again under scrutiny after a North Carolina man was charged with using the popular online classified site to fulfill his own fantasy by finding someone to rape his wife at knifepoint while he watched.
The woman said she has been “traumatized” by the attack, which she did not know about ahead of time. It happened a month after Craigslist agreed to overhaul its policing of sex ads following a slaying in Massachusetts.
“You don’t know what I’m going through,” she said, shaking her head as she stood on her front porch. “This is the worst thing that’s ever happened to me.”
The woman spoke to The Associated Press a day after her husband was ordered held on $200,000 bond on charges including first-degree rape.