'And the descent into this sexual hell, as I call it, is spreading. 'The Philippines is the number one country in what is called webcam child sex tourism. He went on: 'The problem is huge and it's under reported. ‘You can track down payments through all these channels, and maybe you can find them on social media and adult websites, or whatever, but in order to get them in front of a judge you have to find evidence and that is very, very difficult.' 'Without doing what I've been doing, you can't actually find these people. And the sector is professionalising fast. He told MailOnline: 'Law enforcement is not getting a grip on this problem because it is so difficult to find people, predators, who are using live streaming. The suspects remain under investigation by police, the statement added.īut Bridge said police face an ‘uphill struggle’ to stamp out the multi-billion dollar trade in child sex abuse images. The Women and Children Protection Centre, part of the Philippine National Police, confirmed: 'The suspects, caught in the act of recruiting and using children for online trafficking, pornography and sexual exploitation, were later identified as Jeffryl Aque, Lany Buco, Jefford Dominguez, Kissy Pepito, and Cindy Omisol.' But they face an uphill battle to stamp out the multi-billion dollar industry All suspects remain under investigation by police, the statement said. In November detectives raided an apartment in Iligan and rescued 11 girls, the youngest of which was just seven.įive suspects, three men and two women, were arrested in the raid in which they also found illegal drugs.įight: Jefford Dominguez was arrested in the same raid. The journalist, who was forced into hiding and received death threats when he handed his dossier to police there in September. The girls who get lured, or forced, into performing cybersex come from impoverished backgrounds.Īnd some families are so poor it is often the parents themselves who supply their children to the cybersex dens. Interpol and the FBI estimate that over 750,000 paedophiles are online at any one time looking at child porn or live streaming. Yet that number is just the tip of the iceberg. Last year, 139 Brits alone were being investigated for paying to watch Filipino children online. Poverty combined with the rise of cheap, high speed internet access has turned the country into the hub of a billion-dollar cyber sex industry with tens of thousands of girls being exposed to sexual abuse. Online child abuse is the leading cyber-related crime in the Philippines. Journalist Bridge said some of the victims are even babies aged just one-year-old Saved: A girl of seven wrapped in blanket is rescued form cybersex den. Telling her she had to smile while she was doing it, stuff like that. 'There was a couple with a child, she was about 11 years old, and he was telling her what to do. He was an instructor, giving instructions while the abuse was happening. 'I saw a British guy, he was a veteran, he knew the group very well. 'I could see the client list there, it was a group of about 200 people. He added: 'I got access to the accounts of the group I had infiltrated. And they don't know that it is abuse anymore.' 'Doing this sort of work is traumatising. 'They called me and the sister was sitting there with an eight-year-old girl on her lap and she just asked me 'what do you want me to do with her?' Poverty: Iligan City is so poor that parents will sometimes hand over their daughters willingly, while older girls will begin recruiting and teaching younger girls to enter the disgusting trade They come from the US, Europe, Australia, Canada and Korea.
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'They learn how to receive the money, how to do these things unnoticed, how to make contacts. It is contact with the predators that turns them into really educated abusers. 'Girls as young as 12 work independently recruiting friends. 'I found out that some of the older girls were already recruiting younger girls into the industry,’ he said. Over the next few hours he interviewed them to find out as much as he could about their conditions, families and treatment. The girls were later delivered to his hotel room where investigators wired the room with hidden cameras. I told them I was interested in having six girls, two every night - 15 and 17, 11, 13 and then younger. He told MailOnline: 'They gave me a selection of girls to choose from, between the ages of 11 and 17.
Recounting in sickening detail how the investigation played out, he revealed how, after arriving in Iligan City, he was taken to a house where he was introduced to a group of girls. Hotspot: The Philippines is the top destination for predators in search of webcam child sex tourism, with some even travelling to the country to pay between €8 and €30.