(The Christian Post) A federal judge in California has allowed a lawsuit against Twitter filed on behalf of two victims of child sexual abuse to move forward, having partly denied a motion by the social media platform to dismiss the complaint.
In an order released Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Spero ruled that the two victims in the case “have stated a claim for civil liability under the” Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017.
The lawsuit alleged that both plaintiffs — identified only as John Doe 1 and John Doe 2 — were solicited and recruited for sex trafficking at the age of 13 and were manipulated to provide pornographic materials to sex traffickers through another social media platform Snapchat.