The Online Prostitute$

[yiennahs]

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As we know, the oldest job in the world has already taking it's step forward in the internet. This may not be known to few but in some places, not only women but as well as children, are dragged down to this kind of life. I have read an article regarding this and I want to to ask for your opinions on how we can minimize it, prevent or even eradicate this problem.

Do you have any ideas on what causes people to engage in cyber s3x?
How would you react if you found out that one of your friends or even family members are part of this?

Here is the article:

Pair arrested for cybersex

CEBU CITY -- A man and his wife were arrested Wednesday following a National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) raid that caught them presenting three of their own children and a niece naked in front of a computer-mounted camera.

"Talagang mandidiri ka (You will truly feel nauseated)," said NBI-Central Visayas Executive Officer Lauro Reyes of the raid that was carried out with the assistance of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency under the Department of Homeland Security.

"They involved their children in the pornography they were conducting," said Special Investigator Arnel Pura, who took part in the raid held around 9 a.m. in Cordova town.

The pregnant woman, interviewed at the NBI stockade, admitted being engaged in online pornography but denied involving her children in any of her transactions.

"They were in my room just to change. They had just showered," she said in Bisaya, adding that she and her husband were good people who just found themselves without work, forcing her to engage in online pornography.

"We even send all of them to school," she said.

Vice Governor Agnes Magpale, who joined the raid, said the Provincial Women's Commission (PWC) was informed about the operation last year.

As chair of the Provincial Board's committee on women, family and children and as part of the PWC, she wrote a letter to the town mayor. She said they needed decoys to verify.

A source sent them a 10-minute videotape showing the mother doing lewd acts with her three-year-old daughter. Magpale said she was not able to finish watching the entire tape because she could not bear to watch the children's ordeal.

NBI operatives, led by Agent Jed Hife, raided the couple's house Wednesday morning, armed with a search warrant issued by the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Cebu, through Executive Judge Meinrado Paredes.

Sun.Star Cebu is withholding the names of the couple in compliance with Republic Act 9208, the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003, and to protect the identities of their children.

Caught

Judge Paredes issued the warrant after the NBI presented visual evidence of the "services" the couple -- using their five children between three and 15 years old and their 13-year-old niece -- performed in various occasions for clients based in the United States.

"The spouses were arrested while they were caught in the act of exploiting their minor children by making them engage in explicit sexual activities and obscene acts before the webcam of their home computer and transmitting the captured images of the children to their clients abroad for a fee via the Internet," said NBI-Central Visayas Director Edward Villarta in his post-operation report to the central office on Wednesday.

Incestuous acts were involved, said Agent Bernard dela Cruz, countering the woman's claim that she had not involved her children in any crime.

Dela Cruz, like Pura, was part of the raiding team.

The children, two boys and three girls plus the niece, are now with the Department of Social Welfare and Development.

Criminal complaints for human trafficking will be lodged before the Office of the Cebu Provincial Prosecutor "as soon as possible," Villarta said, adding the necessary evidences are still being "collated and prepared."

The raid followed information coming from overseas and involved a process that none in the NBI would disclose.

Live show

One agent said, however, that while the operatives were still on standby near the spouses' home, they were being fed updates of what was going on inside the house.

"We learned that the woman was getting frustrated because the children were not yet able to secure clients. She was harming them," the agent said.

The agents forcibly entered the house as soon as one client began transacting, leaving them still able to witness the three of the five children and the 13-year-old niece in a state of undress.

The PWC technical working group did not sleep much on Tuesday night because they were already at the area at 10 p.m. and the "live show" started at 9 a.m. the next day.

Magpale requested the NBI head office, through former regional director Medardo de Lemos, to send a forensic expert who can check and verify the contents of the central processing unit (CPU) of the couple's computers.

She said the PWC and NBI were also lucky that an immigration and customs enforcement expert helped them check the CPU and other gadgets.

She said there are other houses in that town that operate as cybersex dens. (Sun.Star Cebu)

Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on June 02, 2011.

‘Cybersex’ kids confess

NINE-YEAR-OLD Mimi (not her real name) voluntarily posed in front of a computer-mounted camera for money.

That was the girl’s confession to Insp. Catalina Diotay, chief of the Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO)-Women and Children’s Protection Desk (WCPD).

Mimi and the other girls, aged 12 and 17, were rescued by authorities from a cybersex den in Cordova town last Tuesday afternoon.



The grade four pupil’s 31-year-old mother and two other women were arrested. The women are 25 and 29, police said.

The rescue was conducted by CPPO’s Provincial Intelligence Branch together with Children’s Legal Bureau (CLB) and Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

PIB Chief Rodolfo Albotra said the subject of the search warrant who owns the house and the caretaker evaded arrest.

“During the raid, they were caught performing lewd shows,” he said.

Mida (not her real name), 12, shared the same reason with Mimi why she undressed herself in front of a webcam. She is the younger sister of the house’s caretaker.

“Wa kuno sila’y kwarta (She said they don’t have money),” Diotay said.

The 17-year-old girl, who hails from Mambaling, Cebu City, admitted to Diotay that she was in the illegal business for two weeks already.

Diotay said she cannot believe the girl’s admission.

“She’s into it for quite some time now,” she said in Cebuano.

Albotra said poverty should not be used as a reason for adults to use minors for online pornography.

He said they will file a human trafficking case against the arrested women and the other two, who are still at large. The Children’s Legal Bureau will assist PIB.

Evidence

The police official said they will ask the court to let PIB retain the computer and its accessories so they could examine it and uncover more evidence, which could strengthen the case.

He said they will continue to monitor the province for possible cybersex operations.
Most often, Albotra said online pornography comes out through social networking and dating websites.

“(A) lot of crimes have been committed (through the use of) Facebook,” he said.

He said Internet users should be “extra careful” in posting confidential information or pictures.

The latest raid, according to Albotra, served as a warning to the people in online pornography.

“Stop this kind of trade,” he said. “(It can cause) moral degradation of our society.”

Witnesses

Witnesses to the operation that rescued the three kids last Tuesday issued affidavits before prosecutors yesterday, indicating that the raid will, indeed result, in charges.

But no complaint was filed as the Office of the Cebu Provincial Prosecutor was closed yesterday.

“The rest of the documents are probably not yet ready. But that’s okay since in cases like these, the police have three working days to lodge a complaint,” Cebu Provincial Prosecutor Jane Petralba told Sun.Star Cebu.

Petralba’s office will conduct the preliminary investigation on the complaint when it gets filed. The proceeding will determine if enough basis or “probable cause” exists to indict the subject of the complaint in court.

The execution of affidavits by witnesses before a prosecutor is not yet part of that process, although the affidavits are essential attachments to the complaint itself.

Petralba did not reveal the witnesses’ names in compliance with to the confidentiality provisions in Republic Act (RA) 9208.

But her office recently indicted two people—a husband and his pregnant wife—for using six of their children, plus a 13-year old niece, in live *** shows to paying foreigner-clients over the Internet.

Like the operation conducted by the Provincial Intelligence Branch of the Cebu Provincial Police Office last Tuesday, that operation conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) last June 1 was also in Cordova.

7 cases

The NBI, through Assistant Regional Director Reyes, filed seven complaints against the couple; each one ultimately led to indictments before the Regional Trial Court (RTC) in Lapu-Lapu City.

The respondents were charged for one case of “qualified” violation of the anti-human trafficking act, one case of child abuse, and five cases of violating various provisions of the anti-child pornography law–Republic Act (RA) 9775.

They were found liable for producing, directing, manufacturing and creating child pornography and for providing a venue for the commission of the prohibited acts.

If convicted, the couple will serve a prison term of 20 years, the maximum sentence under reclusion temporal. They will also be from P1 million to P2 million.

Even if handed down though, the sentence would be made irrelevant by a conviction for qualified human trafficking.

Qualified human trafficking, under RA 9208, is when the act is done against three or more persons, minors or by a syndicate. The penalty is a life term. All three children in the Cordova police raid last Tuesday.

Assistant Provincial Prosecutor Lolita Lomanta, in an earlier interview, cited the need for wider public dissemination of the anti-child pornography law.

RA 9775 was enacted in November 2009 and was cited in only one other complaint filed with the justice department in Cebu.

“Mere possession of any form of child pornography or willfully accessing child pornography is now punishable under this law,” Lomanta explained, adding that the intent is to stop pornography by dissuading demand and going after those who provide the supply.

Custody

The three girls rescued last Tuesday are now in the custody of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) regional office.

Jaybee Binghay, DSWD information officer, said she cannot reveal the exact location of the girls for security reasons.

At the undisclosed facility, the girls will undergo psychological evaluation, psycho-social intervention and stress briefing.

Binghay said the case manager will conduct an assessment on the children before an intervention plan could be formulated.

For now, the girls are provided with temporary housing and basic needs such as food, shelter and clothing.

As the raid is the second in Cordova town, Binghay said the raid should serve as an eye-opener for other local government units.

She also called for the organization or reactivation of the Barangay Council for the Protection of Children.

“These (cybersex dens) are home-based. It would be difficult to detect and monitor unless a concerned citizen makes a report,” she said.

“There should be strengthening in the city and municipal level, the responsible parenthood services program,” she added.

The agency continues to pursue a program on marriage counseling, family welfare and for the protection of children.

Cordova

Cordova residents who have internet connections in their households were asked to register at the Municipal Hall, said Mayor Adelino Sitoy.

This way, he can monitor the cybersex problem in his town. He said nobody resisted or else they may be accused or at least thought of engaging in the online menace.

This move was not covered by a council ordinance because he believed that he can initiate this step as a town mayor.

In Barangays Cogon and Ibabao where two raids have been conducted, a total of 500 houses were listed with Internet access.

Sitoy said the number is quite high considering that Ibabao only has 3,000 residents while Cogon has 1,500. But this does not mean they are all engaged in cybersex.

Sitoy described the cybersex problem in Cordova as notorious, but on the flip side, Sitoy said the fact that the raids happened in his town shows officials are doing something about the problem.

After a couple was arrested in Barangay Ibabao for allegedly using their own children in cybersex, Sitoy said every Sunday, they have ricorida or a team assigned to roam the town announcing, through a public address system, that cybersex is illegal.

Every Saturday, he said they have conducted meetings with the Parents and Teachers Association with a representative from the Church.

[neurain]

ug wako masayup kato ning sa cordova? purbida ning klaseng ginikanan mga tapulan e among man jud tawn nila ilang anak sa ilang ka buang oi

[fleur_66]

way puangod nga mga ginikanan gigamit ila anak aron makakwarta..kaluoy sa mga bata linghud pa kaayo gi exploit na, daku kaayo ni epekto sa ila linghud nga pangisip.

[joop]

æanga aning mga tawhana gipahimuslan ang ka inosente sa mga kabataan
kamayo ani nila lapdusan IKOG sa PAGI, unya sabuyan dayun ASIN

tsk tsk

[mineralwithegg]

grabe na ang negosyo sa child porn ron, daghan man customer pud.. ang maayo ani mailhan nila ang suki aning mga tawhana aron ma apil ug priso..

[Saga]

lahi naman karon.. use na ug Facebook... mura ni sila ug group of prosti nya ang usa ra ka account maoy tig post sa ilaha pic then xa ra kontakon.. pili lang ka sa pic sa fb

mao ni xa ang online prostiture

[yiennahs]

lahi naman karon.. use na ug Facebook... mura ni sila ug group of prosti nya ang usa ra ka account maoy tig post sa ilaha pic then xa ra kontakon.. pili lang ka sa pic sa fb

mao ni xa ang online prostiture

ah kuyawa gud,

ang akong gikahadlukan kay muabot najud ang time nga muboom najud ang child pornography. Katung mga international pedophiles kay ari natigkuha sa atoa. I think ganeh usa si Ella joy sa victim ani,.

[cliff_drew]

^ Child Pornography definitely not linked to Ellah Joy case. Yes, Facebook has been used for this purpose even drug syndicates but on this case, the couple use Yahoo email accounts to do the transaction.

Based on an investigation by the National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI-7), the couple maintained two Yahoo e-mail accounts to lure online clients.

‘My parents learned porn from neighbor’ « Cebu Daily News

[yiennahs]

^ Child Pornography definitely not linked to Ellah Joy case. Yes, Facebook has been used for this purpose even drug syndicates but on this case, the couple use Yahoo email accounts to do the transaction.



‘My parents learned porn from neighbor’ « Cebu Daily News

how sure are you that they are not linked?

[THE KID]

naa nanang child prostitution before pang internet....kai hi tech naman...ni upgrade pud sila........