"Children Of Trafficking" Documentary

Fr. Shay Cullen of the Preda Foundation enlists the help of retired Aussie police officers to organize a sting operation. This documentary gives a rare glimpse into the complicated facets of trafficking: poverty, police work, Filipino culture, the parents, and most important of all, the emotionally scarred kids.

Use this phone app to fight trafficking. I have.

The TraffickCam app enables travelers to submit pictures of hotel rooms around the world. The images are matched against a national database used by police. News article on this ingenious app.

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Help fight trafficking by uploading photos of your hotel room. These photos will be used to determine where perpetrators of sex trafficking are committing their crimes.

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You need to read this

The sickening abuse was exposed in an undercover investigation by Belgian journalist Peter Bridge - whose name has been changed to protect his identity. Bridge spent two years investigating suppliers of online child sex abuse in the Philippines and identifying their clients for a documentary, ‘Children of the Cam’. 

Bridge worked with Women and Children Protection Centre of the Philippine National Police and US NGO the International Justice Mission, an American NGO to expose the sickening trade in child abuse. Posing as a paedophile, he established contact with ringleaders, gaining their trust, and was invited into the child cybersex dens. Read more: 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3393713/She-sat-eight-year-old-girl-lap-asked-want-Inside-Filipino-cybersex-den-pot-bellied-paedophiles-pick-girls-abused-webcam.html

Infographic: Undercover Operations

Infographic: The process of targeted undercover operations to free sex slaves. Regular people like us can help anti-trafficking organizations do this...

http://www.theexodusroad.com/first-quarter-2015/#.VWeju8LbLIU

Child-care worker exposed as the boss of a international paedophile ring

A child welfare worker who led a secret life as the defacto boss of a paedophile syndicate was caught after international authorities caught a group member overseas. Former Families SA employee Shannon McCoole, 32, faced court in Adelaide on Friday over his role in operating a website contained more than 50,000 images of child porn he believed was ‘helping’ other paedophiles.

Australian police discovered McCoole’s organisation with the help of European police in May 2014, shortly before he was arrested for offences against seven children, six of whom were in his care, according to News Corp Australia.

Families SA is part of the Australia Department for Education and Child Development.




Read the story here:
http://www.preda.org/news/world/child-care-worker-exposed-as-the-boss-of-a-international-paedophile-ring-after-agroup-member-was-caught-overseas-and-says-he-wants-to-work-withkids-again/

How a Training Turned into a Rescue of underaged girls

At the training, IJM lawyers talked about the Philippines’ anti-trafficking law and spoke with officers about how to best interview rescued victims in order to pinpoint evidence of trafficking. As the workshop ended, a team of police and IJM staff drove to a bar in an area of the city known for its bars and nightclubs advertising girls girls girls.

The rescue team discovered four 17-year-old girls inside the seedy establishment masquerading as a bar and grille. The Philippine National Police gathered enough evidence to arrest two suspects, who have now been charged with trafficking of minors.

Then, with the help of IJM social workers and the Department of Social Welfare and Development, officers interviewed the survivors and recorded their statements—the process in which they had been trained earlier that day.

The interviews were so effective in this operation that the team finished two hours ahead of schedule—one of the fastest operations IJM Pampanga has had yet. They were also able to gather enough evidence that, for the first time, the Department of Labor and Employment decided to initiate the closure of the bar without a letter or petition from IJM. The bar is set to close this month.

Read the story
http://news.ijm.org/ijm-training-exercise-leads-to-rescue-of-underage-girls/

Four Koreans arrested for sex trafficking in Cebu

"Four Korean nationals were arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation last Thursday in Barangay Banilad, Cebu City for alleged human trafficking.



One of four Koreans arrested on allegations of human trafficking hides his face from news cameras in the NBI detention cell.

NBI-7 Assistant Regional Director Augusto Eric Isidoro said an informant, also a Korean, was the one who tipped the NBI that the four suspects were running a website that offer tour packages to Koreans. These tour packages include sex services by Filipino women. Isidoro said only Korean nationals are able to access the website.

To entrapment operation last Thursday was carried out at a hotel with the help of the Korean informant who pretended to book a girl from the website at $150. The girl was eventually rescued by the NBI agents and was convinced to help in pinpointing the suspects. "

Read the story here...
http://www.philstar.com/cebu-news/2015/05/23/1457847/four-koreans-arrested-sex-trafficking

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...

Korean man arrested for enslaving Filipinas

Posted on FB by the Philippines Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT)

Catching a monster - 60 minutes

This is a program about the sexual abuse of children and the hunt for and arrest of Peter Scully - an Australian that sexually abused children in the Philippines. The abuse was filmed/photographed and sold across the world. The abuse was so severe that one or more children died because of the sexual abuse/torture.

He’s considered Australia’s worst paedophile, and for four years Peter Scully was on the run. He thought by hiding out in a remote corner of the Philippines he was beyond the reach of the law. But Scully was wrong. In this exclusive report, 60 Minutes has been given unprecedented access to the international investigation for this terrifying criminal. Joining the Australian Federal Police and special agents in the Philippines on their global manhunt, our cameras were there when Scully was finally caught. Now, behind bars, and facing multiple charges, Tara Brown comes face to face with our country’s most depraved predator. What he has to say for himself will leave you stunned.