Global taskforce tackles cybersex child trafficking in the Philippines
by Matt Blomberg | @BlombergMD | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Monday, 15 April 2019 00:01 GMT
By Matt Blomberg
MANILA, April 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The tip-off came from the FBI: details of an arrest in the United States, the accused's social media profiles, and a host of photographs showing young Filipina girls engaged in sex acts.
Led by police in the Philippines, a new global anti-child sex abuse taskforce started dissecting the U.S. citizen's digital footprint in order to track down the exploited girls.
"Those images were very sexually explicit ... disturbing," said William Macavinta, the Filipino police general heading the unit that launched this year to combat cybersex trafficking - a form of modern slavery where children are abused over webcam.
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Some references as to how even this internet exploitation and slavery even makes it to the West, even the US. But it's on livestreaming internet webcams.
