Genevieve Gluck
Genevieve Gluck

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The Philippines is the global epicenter for online child sex trafficking; videos are live-streamed to buyers abroad.
The government has historically refused to convict officials, and last year arrested a feminist who campaigned against child trafficking.
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The Philippines has become “number one for child trafficking, (and) online pornography” after cases of child exploitation rose by over 280%.
The sale of pornographic materials involving children is a “lucrative business” and a “billion-dollar industry.”
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The Office of Cybercrime received at least 600,000 tips of sexual images of children in 2018, more than a 1,000% rise from 45,645 in 2017.
A 2021 TIP report said that the government “did not convict any officials for complicity in trafficking crimes.”
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Australian paedophiles have been paying as little as $15 for children to perform sexual acts online while being filmed, including streaming pay-per-view.
Peter Gerard Scully, “Australia’s worst paedophile,” once ran a cyber abuse ring in the Philippines.
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The live streaming of child sexual abuse in the Philippines has skyrocketed with perpetrators in Australia accounting for nearly a fifth of offenders.
The crimes often occur on widely available video-chat platforms: Skype, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
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Last year, U.S. prosecutors charged a close friend and advisor to former Pres. Duterte with sex trafficking.
Apollo Quiboloy, founder of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ Church, was accused of running an operation that trafficked victims as young as 12.
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Last November, campaigner against child trafficking and domestic violence, Sally Crisostomo-Ujano, was arrested for "rebellion."
She was the national coordinator of children’s rights non-profit organization Philippines Against Child Trafficking (PACT).
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Despite the government's refusal to investigate officials for complicity in child sexual abuse, the U.S. consistently ranks the Philippines as Tier 1: “fully compliant with the minimum standards for elimination of severe forms of trafficking in persons”.
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