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Acupinpin said she had been reluctant to come forward as a child because she feared people would blame her for the abuse. It was only after she spoke with other children at the orphanage who had also been abused, that she finally disclosed the full extent of her stepfather's abuse to her social worker.
Rampant sex industry. A higher age of consent enshrined in law could help young children better identify and report abuse -- and curb the country's flourishing sex trafficking industry, said Brosas, the lawmaker. The country's poorest children are particularly vulnerable to grooming and exploitation.
There have been cases of children who are lured by traffickers' promises to fund their education, or to provide food and shelter, she said. Though poverty in the Philippines is a long-standing issue that its leaders have worked for years to combat, conditions have become even more desperate during the pandemic, with many families left unemployed and hungry. People queue for food at a community kitchen in Manila. Before Covid, the Philippines was a popular destination for sex tourists, due to lax regulations and poor enforcement against sex trafficking or abuse.
The Philippines is ranked Tier 1 by the US State Department's anti-trafficking agency, which means it "meets the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking.
Lack of legal action. That's more than three times the number of reports received during the same period the year before. Some of those reports were about the same piece of content, or were "inaccurate reporting," said the government's official news agency. But although the government's anti-trafficking agency received 1. It's not clear why so few were taken up by investigators. In a statement to CNN, the anti-trafficking agency said police had rescued victims of online child sexual exploitation in , after conducting 63 operations nationwide.
Prosecutors filed child trafficking cases to court, the majority of which involved sexually abused children. It added that though it received a higher number of online tips about potential online child abuse during the pandemic, these "are only 'suspected' online activities which are not automatically actionable.
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