Philippines sees a pandemic boom in child sex abuse...Live-Streaming of Child Sex Abuse Thrives In The Philippines...Scottish paedophile jailed for directing Philippines child abuse

"Eric dreams of flying a rainbow-coloured rocket to Saturn. He has just lost his baby teeth but he is small for his age. His white, checked shirt hangs off his tiny shoulders.

"What do you cry about during therapy?" his social worker asks him. "I cry about my parents," he says, looking at the ground.

Fedalyn Marie Baldo has spent months with Eric, his 10-year-old sister Maria and two older brothers to help them understand that theirs is not a normal childhood.

For years, when their neighbourhood was asleep and much of the Western world was awake, all four children were forced to perform live sex shows for paedophiles around the world."

"They were raped and repeatedly sexually abused on camera by their mother. Their father, aunt and uncle also took part.

It was the children's father who eventually reported his wife and her family to the police, allegedly after a dispute. Investigators traced payments to the family from accounts in the UK and Switzerland.

Months later, Eric, his brothers and sister ended up at a home run by the charity Preda, which focuses on helping sexually abused children.

That has also been Ms Baldo's job for 17 years. In that time, images and videos of child sexual abuse have ballooned into a billion-dollar industry in the Philippines, now the world's largest-known source of such exploitation.

Grinding poverty, high-speed internet access and an ability to accept instructions in English have all kept it going"
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63658818

"Children rely on their parents to protect them from bullies, shelter them from harm, keep them safe. But while some children are trying to get around the internet and TV controls their parents set up to prevent them from seeing mature or inappropriate content, others are forced to create that content.

What happens when parents are the bullies, the causers of harm, and the ones who threaten children’s safety? What if, rather than blocking harmful content like pornography, parents force their children to produce it?

They are robbed of their childhoods.

That’s exactly what happened to 9-year-old Jennifer*, whose mother ran a webcam sex tourism business out of their home in the Philippines. Two years ago, Jennifer and four other children (ages 7-10), were rescued from a home in Manila during a police raid - they were just about to put on a “show.”

These “shows” are nothing like the cute plays most children privately put on in their backyards for their parents. These “shows” are live-streamed overseas to a paying customer, who can request sexual acts to be performed on or by the children - including sexual acts performed by the children on one another."
https://www.globalcitizen.org/es/content/cyber-child-sex-tourism-philippines/

"A paedophile who directed sex attacks on girls in the Philippines from his home in the Scottish Highlands has been jailed for 12 years.

Gary Campbell, 59, paid for abuse to be carried out by adults as he watched and recorded it on the internet from his home in Lochinver in Sutherland.
Campbell's youngest victim was thought to have been four years old.
He admitted 13 charges including rape, assault, and inciting children to become providers of sexual services."
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-65065166