Webcam child sex tourism. You’re not the first person to have never come across this term before, however, it is a serious issue affecting thousands of innocent children around the world.
Men from developed, richer countries have begun paying children in poorer countries to perform sexual acts via webcam – often paying them for these activities. The UN estimates that roughly 750,000 pedophiles are online at any given moment, while organisation Terre des Hommes has put forth figures much higher than that and also indicated that children as young as six years old could be being exploited over webcam in the Philippines. These numbers indicate a problem of a huge scale, and one that is unlikely to fade away on it’s own.
Terre des Hommes are committed to fighting child exploitation and were shocked that only six men have been charged for this crime, despite the high number of cases taking place every day and despite webcam child sex tourism being a crime in most countries. This low number of convictions is due to the fact that the children being exploited do not go to the police and the men doing the exploiting are aware of how difficult it is for anyone to prove that they have committed the said crime. Using fake names and pre-paid credit cards, the abusers feel safe behind their chat room screens. With that in mind, the organisation came up with an innovative way to tackle the issue right from the source.
Posing as a ten-year-old Filipino girl on Internet chat rooms, the organisation were able to catch pedophiles in the act and compile evidence of the crimes they were committing. However, they faced a problem when many of these men continued to ask them to show themselves on webcam. With that, Sweetie was created.
The video below reveals startling information about the unspoken world of webcam child sex tourism. This is violation and abuse that can easily be stopped, if only governments around the world begin acting on it. Watch the video and join the campaign to put an end to a rapidly growing form of child exploitation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGmKmVvCzkw#t=395
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