LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu — Two minors rescued during an anti-trafficking operation in Cebu have been given psychosocial support and other protective services by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office 7. The agency provided…
Cebu Governor Pamela Baricuatro has directed law enforcement and social agencies to pursue anyone who exploits children, emphasizing that Cebu will not tolerate abuse under any circumstance.…
SYDNEY — Australian police said Monday they had charged four men in Sydney accused of being part of a network sharing “satanic” child sex abuse material. Detectives swooped after probing an “international satanic child abuse material ring”,…
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY — Culion Mayor Cesar de Vera and his wife Maria Virginia de Vera, who is a former town mayor, has been convicted by a regional trial court in Palawan for child abuse. This was…
MANILA, Philippines — The pastor and American founder of a Pampanga-based child care facility accused of child abuse is now under the Bureau of Immigration’s (BI) watchlist, preventing him from leaving the Philippines, according to the Department…
MANILA – The Pampanga Police’s Women and Children’s Protection Desk and the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) 3 (Central Luzon) have arrested an American national who is the subject of numerous complaints by children over alleged…
CEBU CITY, Philippines – Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Cindi King-Chan expressed her dismay regarding a viral video showing the alleged abuse of a 12-year-old child by her grandmother in Sitio Balanghoy, Barangay Gun-ob. In the video, the grandmother…
MANILA – The government is eyeing a number of fresh approaches to stop online child sexual abuse and exploitation of children. In a media briefing Tuesday on the occasion of Safer Internet Day 2024, Department of Justice…
A 2-year-old child, who died late last year in what appears to be a case of parental abuse, was force-fed ultra-spicy “buldak” sauce and soju, a court hearing revealed Thursday. Prosecutors made the accusations during the first…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Parents who cross the line from discipline to abuse could face four to six years in prison. This was what the Supreme Court (SC) reiterated in its decision made public on January 9,…
MANILA – President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has approved the establishment of a one-stop system to ensure children’s protection against all forms of abuse that are detrimental to their development. Executive Order (EO) 79 inked by Marcos…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Former Cebu City Administrator Collin Rosell has lodged a series of complaints, including child abuse, against Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia and other city officials before the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas. The filing on…
