Is your child protected from cyber sex crimes?
POSTSCRIPT By Federico D. Pascual, Jr.
The Philippine Star
VIRTUAL SEX: Have you bought your precocious child one of those small cameras mounted on personal computers allowing users to video-talk with one another? Has your kid been doing more on-line chatting than using his PC for his homework?
The Internet and such infotech gadgets have spawned myriad e-businesses, some of them catering to pedophiles and sex perverts.
In a significant number of cases, many seemingly "nice" youths have fallen victims of sexploitation without their trusting parents being able to do anything about it – because they do not know or do not care enough to find out.
Children in the privacy of their rooms have been seduced into undressing or doing lewd acts in front of those PC cameras thinking they were doing it for a friend or a crush. In many cases, the pornography is filmed without their knowledge and end up being retailed to millions of paying viewers worldwide.
While the old telephone is all audio, now computers are audio-visual or virtual presence. Invasive TV goes one-way into the home from outside, but computers have made the trafficking of sexual content two-way. The home, even the bedroom, has lost its privacy.
If it is not a commercial racket, such electronic sexual contact could be a one-on-one case of seduction of minors, or a "fun" activity of friends who engage in virtual orgy via computers. * * *
BIG FISH: You would be surprised to know who are engaged in this sordid sexploitation.
In Florida, after surveillance the police arrested yesterday Brian J. Doyle, spokesman and a deputy press secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security at his computer at home for allegedly seducing a 14-year-old girl into some sexual situations.
The surprised DHS official did not know that his target victim online was a decoy and that the police have been documenting his alleged seductive advances and propositions with the use of computers.
Good they caught this big fish. But for every sexploiter arrested, how many others get away and continue victimizing youths who are not ready to handle the psychological trap?
In the Philippines, what have lawmakers – when they are not busy politicking and making money – done to update pertinent laws? Are the schools addressing the problem? Are there enough police and prosecution officers continually trained to fight cybercrime?
The Philippine National Police or the National Bureau of Investigation may want to organize workshops for parents, guardians and youngsters on this new form of sexploitation.
Or do we just let the potential victims learn the sad facts of life by themselves?
The Philippine Star
VIRTUAL SEX: Have you bought your precocious child one of those small cameras mounted on personal computers allowing users to video-talk with one another? Has your kid been doing more on-line chatting than using his PC for his homework?
The Internet and such infotech gadgets have spawned myriad e-businesses, some of them catering to pedophiles and sex perverts.
In a significant number of cases, many seemingly "nice" youths have fallen victims of sexploitation without their trusting parents being able to do anything about it – because they do not know or do not care enough to find out.
Children in the privacy of their rooms have been seduced into undressing or doing lewd acts in front of those PC cameras thinking they were doing it for a friend or a crush. In many cases, the pornography is filmed without their knowledge and end up being retailed to millions of paying viewers worldwide.
While the old telephone is all audio, now computers are audio-visual or virtual presence. Invasive TV goes one-way into the home from outside, but computers have made the trafficking of sexual content two-way. The home, even the bedroom, has lost its privacy.
If it is not a commercial racket, such electronic sexual contact could be a one-on-one case of seduction of minors, or a "fun" activity of friends who engage in virtual orgy via computers. * * *
BIG FISH: You would be surprised to know who are engaged in this sordid sexploitation.
In Florida, after surveillance the police arrested yesterday Brian J. Doyle, spokesman and a deputy press secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security at his computer at home for allegedly seducing a 14-year-old girl into some sexual situations.
The surprised DHS official did not know that his target victim online was a decoy and that the police have been documenting his alleged seductive advances and propositions with the use of computers.
Good they caught this big fish. But for every sexploiter arrested, how many others get away and continue victimizing youths who are not ready to handle the psychological trap?
In the Philippines, what have lawmakers – when they are not busy politicking and making money – done to update pertinent laws? Are the schools addressing the problem? Are there enough police and prosecution officers continually trained to fight cybercrime?
The Philippine National Police or the National Bureau of Investigation may want to organize workshops for parents, guardians and youngsters on this new form of sexploitation.
Or do we just let the potential victims learn the sad facts of life by themselves?
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