Here's an extract of an article by the BBC on 15 January 2014.
This caught my ear on BBC World Radio this morning and, seeing it has such direct
bearing on an earlier reading and meditating on Psalm 14. I publish this with a sore heart.
This caught my ear on BBC World Radio this morning and, seeing it has such direct
bearing on an earlier reading and meditating on Psalm 14. I publish this with a sore heart.
Fathers and mothers - parents who ought to protect and nurture - bring their children to this slum and would get paid by the owner of the house to force their children to "perform" for foreigners via a webcam for money.Here's that article:
This kind of thing is not to evoke self-righteousness, but righteous anger, prayer and where possible, influence, action and elimination.
UK paedophiles pay to watch webcam child sex abuse in Philippines. By Angus Crawford BBC News
On Thursday, Britain's National Crime Agency will reveal how it is working with the American, Australian and Philippine police to target abusers. A BBC team travelled to the slum of Ibabao, near Cebu City in the south of the country. Local charities call it the "epicentre" of the trade.
Officer Denis Comunay, who regularly patrols the slum, said: "You can get easy money from the cybersex."
He showed us a small house, with a corrugated iron roof. It was almost empty inside apart from a dirty mattress on the floor and electric sockets hanging from the ceiling. It was what he calls a cybersex den.
"Fathers and mothers would bring their children here to show, and would get paid by the owner of the house," he said.
He explained the property owner forced her own children to "perform" for foreigners using a webcam.
Other people in the community who heard there was money to be made then brought their children too.
Public morality All of the neighbours said they were shocked to hear about the cases but denied they knew what was going on. One said: "How can I know when the house is closed and I did not get inside and see what they are doing?" But a recent survey indicated that 80 houses in the area were involved in the trade.
There are some strong views about oppressors and evildoers in Psalm 14.
