School Knew Of Internet Child Porn

[Jollygoodfellow]

 

She said she was aware that the Internet links sold can only be opened by a foreigner who will use his card and that the links lead to "naughty" materials.

 

Only a foreigner, hmm how many Filipino Overseas workers are foreigners ! They forget half the population is a foreigner somewhere.  :89:

 

 

 

 

Child porn operation raided in Philippine school

 

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Government agents raided an Internet child porn operation based in a Philippine school and arrested its president and eight other people, investigators said Tuesday.

 

The suspects used a room at the Mountaintop Christian Academy to post online images and video of children and adults for foreign consumption, said Ronald Aguto, cybercrime investigation head in the National Bureau of Investigation.

 

Authorities were still investigating, but Aguto said it didn't appear that children at the school were being abused and that the operators were uploading pre-recorded images and video stored.

The school had 2000 elementary and high school students, Aguto added. Its licence was revoked in 2006 for unknown reasons but it had remained open.

 

Puring Martinez, the arrested president and owner of the private school, told GMA television network she rented out the room to the Internet site operators to augment the income of the school because fees paid by students were not enough to cover costs.

 

She said she was aware that the Internet links sold can only be opened by a foreigner who will use his card and that the links lead to "naughty" materials.

 

Martinez' son, Tom, said the school had only 260 preschool, elementary and high school pupils, and that their permit to operate was valid. It was not clear why there was a discrepancy with the NBI information.

 

He said the Internet operation was owned by an American from Tennessee, who rented two rooms for 40,000 pesos ($900) in a bungalow separate from the classrooms but within the school compound. All of the suspects arrested are Filipino, and the American's whereabouts were not clear.

 

The raid shows the extent of the task facing Philippine authorities in cracking down on child pornographers, who exploit weak law enforcement and increasing broadband Internet penetration to base operations in the country.

 

Gilbert Sosa, director of the national police's Anti-Cybercrime Group said last month the Philippines was one of the top 10 sources of child pornography in the world, and that police have been cooperating with other countries to crack down on it.

 

Two other Internet porn operations in Quezon city were raided Monday night. At least 22 people were arrested in those two raids and more than two dozen computers seized.

 

Aguto said they have yet to conduct a forensic investigation on the seized computers, but based on what they have gathered so far, the suspects will be charged with violating laws against child pornography and obscene publication of adult pornographic images.

 

More than 40 computers were seized as evidence during the raid late Monday at the school in Metropolitan Manila's Muntinlupa city."It was like a computer lab inside the school," Aguto said in a telephone interview. "Even during daytime, when the pupils were there, they were using it for this kind of offense."

 

He said the site operators worked day and night, chatting online with clients and pretending to be women or girls depending on what the client wanted. They would then upload pictures and pre-recorded video of a nude girl or woman they claim to be.Last month, Britain's National Crime Agency said child abuse investigators in Britain, the US and Australia had dismantled an organised crime group that streamed footage of child sexual abuse. The ring abused impoverished children as young as six, the agency said. Authorities made 29 arrests, including 11 people in the Philippines who had facilitated the crime. Some were members of the children's families.

 

http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/21553201/child-porn-operation-raided-in-philippine-school/

[Hewy09]

THIS ALL JUST MAKES MY STOMACH CHURN.

How could any human take advantage of children. I dare anybody to take advantage of my 2 children or any that I know for that matter.

Sorry I can't help it if I ever caught the people responsible for such acts against children I know I would be either a hero or in a Filipino jail for life!!

Again I'm sorry I'm just sick and tired of the low life individuals that take advantage of children.

Sent from my iPhone. buhay ay mahusay na! magsaya.

[Miguk]

THIS ALL JUST MAKES MY STOMACH CHURN.

How could any human take advantage of children. I dare anybody to take advantage of my 2 children or any that I know for that matter.

Sorry I can't help it if I ever caught the people responsible for such acts against children I know I would be either a hero or in a Filipino jail for life!!

Again I'm sorry I'm just sick and tired of the low life individuals that take advantage of children.

Sent from my iPhone. buhay ay mahusay na! magsaya.

It is sickening. I work for ICE and you would not want to know how many of those perverts are in the Philippines thinking they are safe from U.S. prosecution....wrongly thinking that is.

[Hewy09]

THIS ALL JUST MAKES MY STOMACH CHURN.

How could any human take advantage of children. I dare anybody to take advantage of my 2 children or any that I know for that matter.

Sorry I can't help it if I ever caught the people responsible for such acts against children I know I would be either a hero or in a Filipino jail for life!!

Again I'm sorry I'm just sick and tired of the low life individuals that take advantage of children.

Sent from my iPhone. buhay ay mahusay na! magsaya.

It is sickening. I work for ICE and you would not want to know how many of those perverts are in the Philippines thinking they are safe from U.S. prosecution....wrongly thinking that is.

Good to hear that! Keep up the good work.

Sent from my iPhone. buhay ay mahusay na! magsaya.

[Call me bubba]

had been thinking of this the past few weeks,that SO many "news articles" have been regarding

the arrest or closure of so many of these sites(Crimes)

.NOW the answer is CLEAR

 

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/580913/us-observer-joins-nbi-raid-on-navotas-cybersex-den

 

Four young girls were rescued and two suspected cybersex traffickers catering to foreign pedophiles were arrested in Navotas City on Wednesday with the help of an agent from the US Department of Homeland Security, according to the National Bureau of Investigation.

NBI Director Virgilio Mendez said an American undercover agent joined an NBI operation on Monte Loyola Street, Barangay San Roque,

 

the above story was edited to post only the "detail" that the US has some connection to the recent "raids" of these sites(Crimes)

 

 am curious of how the US has gotten involved ?

was it an arrest of a RSO (registered sex offender)? and they examined his computer?

some clerk didn't "feel "right when some one made a wire transfer? either here(in philippines) or there?

or in the course of their normal investigation came across these sites?

what or how they got involved is not my concern,

At least they are removing these sites/people from circulation

and in turn it will make it slightly safer for those who live here(meaning us the expats who have made this country our home)
 

[paulus]

Many more to go yet, Pittman. All this activity stems from the US funded push to reduce world wide human trafficking. We used to call it slavery, but political correctness applies. Child trafficking and/or abuse occurs all over the world in huge numbers. The Philippines is recognised as an ideal base because of the natives' poverty and indifference or reluctance to interfere with neighbours' affairs. Poverty because parents see riches beyond belief in offering their kids to these dens, and engage a 'psychological disconnect' between their activity and their moral and religious beliefs. Yep, church on Sunday as before. Indifference because neighbours notice these activities but regard them as 'not their business'. And who would they report to, anyway.

Recent police activity is pushing these cells out into the provinces where it is more difficult to discover them, and where they are somewhat protected by the 'code of silence' and perhaps a little graft. In some provincial cities can be found whole barangays almost saturated with cam-sex dens, not necessarily child abusers, probably because of the better quality of the i'net signal.. Neighbours are aware, but 'not their business'. These are 'dens' run by ordinary women usually, who are so easily found by young single mums when boyfriend or husband quits his familial duties. The income earned takes the place of social security found in other nations, and in many cases the only means of providing for the kids and themselves. These women are unskilled for any legitimate work. In other cases of course they are 'professionals'. These women too have that 'psychological disconnect', where the danger lies in that they could be tempted to involve their kids in these activities for extra money. .Activities, by the way, which they would not engage in, in real life; only in Cyber conditions.

Police ( and NGO) activity may reduce child trafficking, but will not eliminate it here. New methods for avoiding observation and 'pseudo legitimising' the business are constantly being tried. Responsibility lies with society being more aware; with government in improving welfare conditions, job creation, better education for the masses etc; and in any nation this will take tremendous effort and commitment and of course re-examination of the national budget.

So, as abhorrent as we may find it, child slavery is alive and well right across Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia, and the avoidance of detection is getting more and more sophisticated. Sleep well.

[Tukaram (Tim)]

The US ties up financial aid with perceived improvements in whatever areas we deem necessary.  That way we can dictate to the world how to live.  Money grubbers like IJM get involved too.  In this case it is good - usually we are just bothersome.