7 minors, including infant, rescued from ‘cybersex den’ in Cebu City

Morexette Marie B. Erram, Paul Lauro 07/14/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Authorities here rescued at least seven minors, including an infant, from an alleged cybersex den on Wednesday, July 13, 2022. Police Maj. Niño Lawrence Ibo, officer-in-charge of the Women and Children Protection Center…

CCPO to set up help desks near schools to address OSEC crimes

Alven Marie Timtim 07/16/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Police help desks will be set set up once a week near schools in Cebu City where a high number of rape and child abuse cases have been reported. Police Colonel Gemma Vinluan,…

Combating online sexual exploitation of children

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 07/13/2019

  Cebu finally did it: combat online sexual exploitation of children (OSEC) with technology. OSEC is an issue that strikes a personal chord in me because I knew children who are victims of it. I was a…

Police, gov’t lawyers undergo training on prosecuting online sexual exploitation of children

PR 07/08/2019

DAVAO CITY, Philippines — A three-day training course designed to help law enforcers and prosecutors combat online sexual exploitation of children (OSEC) in the Philippines ended last June 20, 2019. Held in Davao City, the third iteration…

Hackathon to fight online child sexual exploitation set in Cebu

Raul Constantine L. Tabanao 06/29/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Bidlisiw Foundation Inc., in cooperation with Sympn, CodeChum,  Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT-7) in Central Visayas, Inspire Team, New Logic, and ACX Outsourcing Hub, will conduct its first ever Hackathon in Cebu combating…

Gains, new online threat cited

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 07/29/2016

As the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) cited in-roads in the fight against human trafficking with the decrease in the availability of children for commercial sex in Metro Cebu, it also acknowledged the emergence of other forms…

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