The National Bureau of Investigation vows to end all forms of cybersex and pedophilia cases in the Philippines.
According to Janet Francisco, chief of anti-human trafficking at the NBI, the authorities will work hand in hand with foreign allies to address online sexual exploitation.
“This should be a warning. We will really catch them, with the help of our foreign counterparts. We will really put them in jail and they will die in jail,” the Associated Press quoted Francisco as saying.
Francisco’s statement came as a comment on the recent raid of a suspected pedophile’s home in Mabalacat, Pampanga last April 20.
The report said the NBI caught David Timothy Deakin in action and retrieved children’s underwear, toddler shoes, cameras, bondage cuffs, fetish ropes, meth pipes and hard drives inside the suspect’s alleged cybersex den.
AP said the webcam sex tourism case reflects the United Nation’s claim that new digital technologies could result in “alarming growth of new forms of child sexual exploitation online.”
“The suspect is really a highly technical person, he is computer savvy, so he was able to hide several computers within the computer,” Francisco said.
AP added cases of livestreaming sexual exploitation of children in the Philippines have increased since the first high-profile incident was reported in 2011.
Credit: Associated Press, Philippine Daily Inquirer
