Internet age brings s shocking rise in child sex abuse cases 
The Universe
(September 17, 2006)
Despite all the wars that begin and end, one was never ends, the one against the child abusers and traffickers.
In the UK, a recent report says that not enough is being done by the child protection agencies to investigate and stop the trafficking of children.
In the Philippines, hardly any traffickers are brought to justice, making this a preferred destination for pedophiles and sex tourists apparently with the approval of government officials with personal business interests in the tourist industry.
Very recently, an eight year-old Austrian girl abducted and kept in a basement dudgeon-like room for ten years, escaped. She had paired with her abuser as a way of survival. Later when she learned he had killed himself by jumping in front of a train, she said she mourned his death.
Recently, I was tipped of to a similar case where a 16 year-old had been abducted and taken to a secret location in Angeles city, Philippines, by a 56 year-old Dutch child sex abuser, wanted for tax evasion in the Netherlands.
This year, he built a sex hotel in Baloy Beach, Olongapo from where he allegedly trafficked young women over the Internet to prospective sex tourists who flew to the Philippines.
Luckily, I was able to find his secret sex den in Angeles city, have him arrested and with social workers, rescue the teenager. She had already been made docile and submissive by her abuser and refused at first to leave him.
Now he is charged in court for child abuse under Philippine law while the girl is recovering at the Preda children’s home for trafficked girls.
After two weeks of therapy, she is willing to see him go to jail for his many crimes against minors. Now we hope the prosecutors do their duty and prosecute him to the end.
A German is on trial in Olongapo for obstruction of justice. In order to protect a convicted Australian pedophile from another charge of child abuse, he allegedly abducted the child and had her adopted by a foreign couple before she could testify, refusing to divulge her whereabouts to police.
This is evidence of trafficking, according Senator Jamby Madrigal who has summoned the accused German and a dozen of other witnesses from the Police and Department of Justice and Immigration, to explain why the accused was released from the immigration prison to carry on with his alleged activities.
The lady senator is a well known defender of the rights of women and children, and last week called a public hearing of the Philippine Senate committee on youth, women and family.
The purpose was "to conduct an inquiry in aid of legislation on the release from detention of alleged child trafficker and paedophile (name withheld) with the end in view of formulating stronger legal measures to prevent the reccurrence of similar incidents involving alleged offenders of child protection laws".
Senator Madrigal heard the news that the German was arrested and jailed in Manila because he had a deportation order issued against him as a result of an arrest warrant for the alleged kidnapping and extortion of a German couple.
The senator’s new legislation can only set positive wheels in motions.
The trafficking of children and women is growing due to the power of the Internet, and the extent to which it is used to transmit child pornography, which accounts for 80 per cent of all pornography sent, is phenomenal.
British Telecoms which provides customers’ access to the Internet has connected up with a charity to block access to child pornography sites. This is something that internet server providers (ISP) in the Philippines and everywhere need to do.
Protecting children is our prime duty as human beings and as Christians. [End]
