Young Filipino children enjoying street games in Manila, Philippines. Across Southeast Asia, police are grappling with a new wave of internet predators enjoying streamed live images of child abuse from Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines and Vietnam. – EPA pic, May 17, 2019.
SOUTHEAST Asia is in the grip of a fresh surge of paedophile activity with predators orchestrating and watching abuse on live-streaming sites and via webcams, and paying for it with near-untraceable cryptocurrency, victims and children’s charities warn. With widespread poverty, lax laws, and creaking judicial systems, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and the Philippines have long been seen as soft spots by foreign and local paedophiles seeking underage sex in person.
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