Sex workers openly using Facebook, Twitter to advertise services

London, Jan 31 ): Sex workers are openly using social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter to advertise their services.

Prostitutes and escort agencies have created hundreds of unrestricted pages on Facebook.

This has sparked concern that children are being exposed to both explicit content as well as the services of the sex industry, the Telegraph reports.

Many of the pages include explicit photographs, descriptions of services alongside phones numbers, addresses and prices.

Facebook has removed dozens of the pages after being contacted by The Times newspaper.

The site said it "has a clear set of rules and these pages broke them", but said it could only take action when offensive items were reported to them by members of the public.

According to the paper, the postings were also reported to Twitter, but the microblogging site declined to comment or take action.

Under the company's rules, content would need to be illegal to be considered in breach of its terms and conditions, the paper added. 

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Teacher held for raping student

New Delhi, December 26: A government school teacher has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman who took private tuitions from him as a schoolgirl. 

The teacher, identified as Ram Avtar (40), is also charged with making an obscene MMS of the woman and blackmailing her into continuing in a physical relationship with him over the last several years. 

The victim, who is 22 years old now, has told the police that Ram Avtar, who teaches Hindi at a government school in south Delhi's Ambedkar Nagar, took her to Rajasthan in 2004 and had intercourse with her. 

After that, the Madangir area resident repeatedly lured her away from home on various pretexts and continued exploiting her. 

The woman alleged that in 2008 she understood Avtar was taking undue advantage of her and objected to his acts. The accused, however, recorded an MMS of her and blackmailed her into submission.

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