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Welfare exec: Child cyber-sex victims end up seeking sex


Exposed to lewd sexual behavior through pedophiles on the Internet, rescued child victims of cyber-sex trafficking in Cordova, Cebu, have ended up seeking sexual intercourse with other children, a local welfare official said. The child victims seek intercourse with fellow minors not only in exchange for money but for personal pleasure, said the local Children’s Legal Bureau executive director Joan Saniel in an interview aired on GMA News TV’s Balita Pilipinas newscast over the weekend. The children are now in the custody of the Department and Social Welfare and Development, the newscast added. Psychological effects such as guilt and shame usually hound rescued victims of child pornography, according to then-16-year-old Marina (not her real name), who was rescued from a suspected cybersex den in Bacoor, Cavite, in 2008.
Last June, six minors (aged 4, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 15) were rescued from a cyber-sex den after a Cebuano couple allegedly made them strip and perform sexual acts in front of a web camera for $25 per view. Five of these minors are the couple’s own children, while the other is their niece. Another group of women and children was rescued from a cyber-sex den in July, with the mother of one of the minors allegedly involved in trafficking, Balita Pilipinas reported. The raids come at around the same time that the United States took off the Philippines from its Tier 2 human trafficking watch list for having convicted a substantial number of human traffickers in 2010. — Paterno Esmaquel II/LBG, GMA News

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