PORTLAND, Ore. — Money may be available to sex trafficking survivors involved in one of the largest online prostitution sites in the world, according to the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office.

The DA's office said on Friday that it sent letters to more than 1,200 people in the Portland area who may have been exploited or sex trafficked either as minors or adults through the website Backpage.com and CityXGuide. Backpage.com, which launched in 2004, grossed an estimated $500 million. The Department of Justice is using that money and the website's assets to "help pay for healing," the DA's office said.

In 2018, the federal government seized Backpage.com and shut it down . Two of the site's owners were sentenced to 10 years in prison, and a third person was sentenced to five years

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