Tourists flee Olongapo sex bars in fear of arrest!

Preda news Reporter, 18 may 2015

During a presentation at the Iowa State University Father Shay Cullen told a audience of 600 professors, clergy, human rights activists and students that following  the undercover work of retired Australian police and US ICE agents sex tourists are leaving Olongapo and Subic sex tourist areas.

"The  wave of human slavery is increasing in the  world and the young women and children are the most vulnerable victims. It is not only in poor countries but in developed nations also." Fr.Shay told the audience.

Fr.Shay reminded  the audience that as many as 13 million unfortunate Africans; men, women, and children were kidnapped, abducted, captured and sold into slavery in North and South America over a period of 300 years upon which the early wealth of the nation in part was taken.

"However today", Fr.Shay said, "more than 4.5 million women and children and poor working men are trafficked into slavery every year, most never escape and are forced into fishing boats, brothels and sex dens and made have forced abortions.

He told the audience a big anti-trafficking success for Preda was when the Preda social workers rescued young women and children in 2013 from Sex bars in Calapadayan, Subic Town. This was helped by retired Australian police and active US Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and Philippine police investigators. The went undercover into the sex bars poising as sex tourist customers.

They identified the minors and the sex customers and traffickers. Arrests were made and the court cases are still going on in Olongapo City with a jailed US national on trial. Sex tourists are deserting Subic and Olongapo bars and clubs as a result out of fear of being identified by the undercover retired police officers.

Father Shay said and as many as 12 sex bars have now closed and others denied a Mayors permit down. The chilling effect has been seen in the Olongapo area he said as sex tourists of many nationalities have a fear of being under surveillance and in danger of arrest in such bars.

Sex tourism is also a growing scourge that abuses and enslaves the children and women in developing countries and in Europe also where thousands of young girls are trafficked Germany and Austria every year where prostitution is legal.

In the Philippines he said the most sex tourists come from South Korea, Japan and Australia, and North America. The campaign to stop this and free the victims must go on...