Inside the Global Taskforce Fighting Child Sex Abuse in the Philippines | Foreign Correspondent



In the dead of night in Manila, police officers track down criminals responsible for delivering online child abuse to a growing number Australian customers. This scene has played out dozens of times across the Philippines as cases hit unprecedented levels. Subscribe: https://ab.co/3yqPOZ5

The demand for live streaming child sexual abuse is so high in Australia that AFP officers are now based permanently in the Philippines working with an international task force investigating this distressing cyber-crime.

On Foreign Correspondent reporter Stephanie March has been given exclusive access to the Filipino police and the international task force as they hunt down the abusers and rescue the children.

Parents are often involved in arranging the abuse and in a frank and confronting prison cell exchange Stephanie interviews a mother accused of facilitating the abuse of her own child for money.

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46 thoughts on “Inside the Global Taskforce Fighting Child Sex Abuse in the Philippines | Foreign Correspondent”

  1. My heart goes out to the officers and the victims. I hope someday that we’ll be able to stop these horrific crime’s being committed against children all over the world.

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  2. Thank you for helping spread the word about the great changes El Salvador is experiencing for the better. Specially for the 'international community'. Sadly, they seem to be unhappy about this advancements.

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  3. The governments both in developed world who spoil their population and poor world who rip their population are to be blamed. Social security is non existent in a country with corrupt government. Blame them for keeping people to this low levels of poverty.

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  4. I grew up in a low income household and my parents got offers for me to do modeling when I was a kid and they never thought to put me through that because they know shady stuff happens in the modeling industry and no amount of money is worth putting your kid at risk. People that do this type of shit are sick.

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  5. I don't want to live in a world that abuses children, unfortunately, this goes on, and on and on. A never ending war, for the young children who are caught up in this filthy disgusting world. I knew a girl , who had three children by her stepfather, all with mother's approval, at the age of 13. She was finally taken from this environment and put in the foster care system along with the three babies all placed separately. These babies were ripped from her arms, and taken to foster care, were they were probably abused there. There is no hope for this world, and judgement from God will come. He is angry, he said it was better for the person that offended one of these little ones to tie a milestone around his neck and he be thrown into the sea. There will be a special place in hell for these people.

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  6. Why if only pedos would get mutilated if they hurt a child or buy this shit then they wouldn’t take the risk but most get a slap on the wrist and barely get any prison time it’s complete bs they shouldn’t see the light of day again after destroying a child for LIFE

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  7. It is not an excuse.. but Australia and Philippines is different.. I Australia, government will give you hand outs enough for you to survive.. In the Philippines, they may give hand outs for the lucky few, but even that. It wouldn’t be enough to survive for few days, I am sure these parents don’t like what they doing.. it is not an excuse, it is either they are lazy or really desperate..

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  8. if the buyers can't find it there, they'll look somewhere else. like, a prvt island. the people of these lands was in different wars and other war(s). the people was able to keep their native language and dialect.

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  9. Why is this not big news in the Philippines? Oh! they are busy with their fashion shows, beauty pageants, and singing contests, and noon time shows.

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  10. I'm not sure it actually ramped up. The Philippines would turn a blind eye to it for so long. So many rescue missions going into brothels to find these children and only being able to get a very small number of children. Since the tourists couldn't go and travel that's when it moved online and the revenue of those tourists dwindled. It's to a point now it is no longer a protected secret

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  11. Heard from friends working in nonprofit organizations here that some parents think and say that since the abuse is done only online, not in prison, there is no harm done. 😢 Such is their denial of reality. Thank you to the good people here and from Australia who help in this mission.

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  12. Why don't we see governmental awareness campaigns around the world about the spread of this phenomenon? And also, no one should ever go hungry. This is our mission in life. Help the weak and the needy, if possible. Even animals now coexist with each other, and we all saw that on social media. When will we change that Darwinian view ? and be brothers in humanity as it should be , like helping kids growing thier talents instead of making wars is a better solution for the future

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  13. The solution is simple, vetting. Stop allowing these predators fleeing prosecution in their own countries to come into yours waving money in front of parents eyes to buy and molest children. You need to know the reason why they are there, how long they intend to stay and where they intend to stay. Take their passports and background check them before you unleash them onto your children. Yes, it will take money and trained officers to enforce, but if save one child from the Peter Skully's or Richard Huckle's of this world, it has to be worth it.

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  14. The taskforce office hit the nail on the head "You provide for your children not your children provide for you". Until they're adults it's not their job to help you pay bills.

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  15. I think the real question should be how those people got to know there is a demand for such an activity in the first place?? because I don't think people with that kinda education level can discover something was happing in the dark web and bring it to mainstream internet platforms and create a network plus makes a supply chain. no ! definitely there must be an advertiser who manipulates those desperate people during the lockdowns so if you guys try to look into who they got to know about this from then you can start pining down who stated this, trust me even an expert con planer would leave some sort of a digital footprint.

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