Backpage.com founder Michael Lacey sentenced to 5 years in prison, fined $3M for money laundering

... Yvonne Ambrose, whose 16-year-old daughter Desiree Robinson was trafficked in Chicago on Backpage and killed in 2016 by a man who answered an online sex ad, told the judge on Tuesday about the pain she feels from her daughter’s death.

“I suffer every day from the loss of my baby,” Ambrose said.

Read more coverage of the case and conviction from reporter Jacques Billeaud in the Associated Press.