BY FR. SHAY CULLEN
THE PARENTS or relatives of the child victims who do it tell themselves and others that it does no harm. Customers are only looking at, not touching, the naked children. Child sex shows are much more and can be obscene acts done to the child. Children as young as three to 15 are made to do indescribable sex acts that make one shrink in total disgust.
This crime against helpless children is not to be taken lightly, must never be tolerated or ignored. Everyone is challenged to stand against it, to report abuse and demand greater law enforcement. This is a multi-billion dollar child sex business where the victims can be as young as three years of age.
These immoral abusers form a great wave of demand for the live video sex shows. The customers, mostly males, search for messages and images of young women who post images of themselves in alluring poses on platforms like Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, offering themselves sexually.
The pedophiles contact them and offer them large sums of money to recruit children to be abused online. Some teenagers abused as children run to the streets and there some become human traffickers, luring other children to participate in live-sex shows on the internet.
All they need is a mobile phone and they can buy an hour of internet time. They see no other future. The images of child sexual availability on-line desensitizes adults who can abuse children without remorse or conscience.
The payment for the child abuse shows is made also by the Internet through international money transfer services. Child abusers will get a long jail sentence to life in prison in some countries if they are caught and convicted. This is very rare as on-line sexual abuse is a secret crime with small children committed in a private room without witnesses.
Interpol and other foreign police forces have specialized police units searching for the abusive shows and are tracking them to their source. Local police are supposed to rescue the victims and arrest the suspects. This very seldom succeeds.
The online child abusers frequently visit the country where the Internet live show is done. They visit the family and then physically abuse the child victim. They can quickly leave without detection and can escape if ever suspected.
When foreign law enforcement officers raid a suspected customer of child sex shows in countries of the EU, the USA or Australia, they find hundreds of other child abusers connected to each other and sharing over the Internet images of child abuse. In Germany, in one police raid, 30,000 suspected abusers were discovered on one network.
The Internet is also a power for great good. People are connected and industry thrives. The world is now dependent on having a wi-fi signal and a mobile phone. The global and Philippines telecommunications industries are connected and interdependent. They have a global responsibility to block, filter and extract child abuse images however they are made whether by Artificial Intelligence software or abused in real life. They are horrifically damaging to children and must be curbed and stopped.
The sooner the better that the world wakes up to the crimes committed over the internet and hold the internet service providers accountable for the child abuse videos and images that they pass through their computers.
That will be the day when moral values and goodness will overcome the evil of child abuse on the internet. It is the challenge for every human person to protect children from such terrible harm and abuse and give them care and protection. (preda.org)/PN
