Since technology is yet to be developed or deployed by ESPs to detect live streamed abuse, IJM said it is often uncovered only when a foreign law enforcement agency identifies an offender for a different but related offense like possession or sharing of child sexual exploitation materials .
“There are children who need rescue now, but rescue starts with timely detection and robust reporting,” he added.Among the 43 victims for whom the exact length of abuse was known, the average length of abuse was two years, ranging from two months to four years. “The results of the study show that OSEC is a growing and heinous crime,” said Philippine Justice Undersecretary Emmeline Aglipay-Villar, who is in-charge of the Philippine Department of Justice’s Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking.
Ambassador John Richmond, of the US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Office, said the US government has dedicated significant resources toward ending OSEC. It also proposed increasing OSEC-dedicated staffing, budget and collaboration among law enforcement agencies; and improving collaboration in information and intelligence-sharing, measurement and data collection, and research on OSEC.
FemaleMolesters Or to be more precise: “Traffickers tended to be younger Filipina women, often family members of the victims.”