Child Sex Syndicates / Legal Wins 
Child Sex Syndicates Sell Children to US Servicemen
In 1982 PREDA investigators uncovered a syndicate selling children into prostitution as young as nine years old to US servicemen in Olongapo City, 135 kilometers NorthWest of Manila.
PREDA then began a campaign to eradicate it and close the base and turn it into an economic development zone.
Ten years later that is what happened. Today the bases are gone and there is an economic zone in place. However, many problems remain from the left-over effects of the bases, the autocratic and non-democratic rule of the economic zone by a political family and their plan to bring back the US ships despite a Constitutional ban.
In 1988 a US Navy Investigations team conducted an undercover operation in Olongapo City and discovered a busy trade in children for sex. Their reports said they were offered children as young as four years old, six, eight, ten and thirteen. The report was suppressed by Local Government. No suspect was arrested
Bringing Legal Prosecutions:
The work of PREDA to protect children and bring their abusers to justice is well known (and well documented further on this site). Even while threatened and harassed by Local Government who see their sex tourism threatened the work never-the-less goes on.
Much of this work is made all the more effective by the national and international networking with other organizations and agencies equally committed to working for civil and human rights.