When Australian police raided the home of a Queensland paedophile, they made a shocking discovery — the offender was being sold online access to children by their mother.
When Australian Federal Police raided the home of a Queensland paedophile, they were shocked to discover who was supplying him with child abuse material: the mother of his victims.Online sexual exploitation of children in South-East Asia has tripled since the pandemic beganSeveral Australians have been arrested in recent months on abuse charges in the Philippines
It was only when the AFP raided the Queensland man's home that Vilma's criminal enterprise was uncovered. But other children in South-East Asia have not been as lucky to escape the woman facilitating their abuse.The online sexual abuse of children is skyrocketing across many countries in the region. The Philippines is the global epicentre, with an estimated 300,000 cases of abuse since March alone.
"More recently western countries including Australia have enacted laws that are preventing registered sex offenders from travelling." The average age of victims is 11. Most, but not all, are girls. And without intervention, the abuse in most cases lasts an average of four years. In one case, seven children, including a three-month old baby girl, were rescued from a home in outer Manila.
The AFP also last year joined forces with law enforcement agencies from the Philippines and the UK to set up a joint cybercrime unit, the Philippines Internet Crimes Against Children Centre.
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