What’s Current: Man kidnaps British woman, tries to auction her off on porn site

Image of Lukasz Herba released by Italian police.

Last month, a man named Lukasz Herba kidnapped Chloe Ayling, a British woman who was in Italy for a modeling gig. He then attempted to auction her off on a dark web porn website. It appears that Ayling was not his first victim:

“Italian investigators have since established that the suspected kidnapper had already organized several online auctions for the sale of abducted girls, referring to them as ‘prey.'”

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Susan Cox

Susan Cox is a feminist writer and academic living in the United States. She teaches in Philosophy.