Cyber-crime destroys children’s lives. Fr Shay Cullen’s Reflections, 12 February 2016

Cyber-crime destroys children’s lives

by Fr Shay Cullen

It is the most disturbing crime that you will ever read about when young children, only six years old and above, are taken to a room in a rich suburb or a squatters shack in a slum and made to perform sex acts before a camera linked to the Internet.

This is massive criminal business growing by the day. Despite the very slow Internet connections throughout the Philippines in general, the cyber-sex operators and the sex dens that show child pornography seem to have the fastest broadband speed of all. Inside deals with Internet service providers (ISP’s) might account for this but one thing is certain- it is wrecking havoc on the lives of thousands of small children.

During these sessions young boys and girls are coerced or lured into doing sex acts for foreigners who view them from abroad for payment. They are traumatized and disturbed for life.

Full article on Preda website here.