IACAT The Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) has tapped the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) in the government’s all-out campaign against human trafficking. Led by the Department of Justice (DOJ), the IACAT has signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the AMLC “to strengthe
Court of Appeals (File photo) MANILA - The Court of Appeals (CA) upheld the life imprisonment sentence and more than PHP2 million in fines imposed by a Pampanga court on two women for violation of anti-trafficking in persons law. In a decision on May 4 and made public online recently, the CA said Julie Nicdao and another woman named in court records only as YYY are guilty beyond reasonable doubt of qualified trafficking. YYY's real name was concealed to protect the identity of her sibling, one of their minor-aged victims referred to as AAA. The operation to catch the two was hatched following international intelligence cooperation in 2018 with the Australian Federal Police, Queensland Police Service, and National Bureau of Investigation Anti-Human Trafficking DIvision (NBI-Ahtrad). They identified Nicdao from Angeles City, Pampanga as producing and selling pornographic web camera shows to clients who pay her through international money transfers. Australian authorities gathered the
(File photo) LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu - A regional trial court here has convicted two female human traffickers for engaging in sexual exploitation of children online, according to the Women and Children Protection Center-Visayas Field Unit (WCPC-VFU) statement on Friday. The two accused were among the five people arrested in an entrapment operation on March 21, 2019 conducted by the said unit of the Philippine National Police (PNP) inside two houses in this island city. Elements of the WCPC caught the traffickers offering "to sexually abuse the minors and stream live the exploitation in exchange of money from online predators." The authorities rescued 11 minors during the three simultaneous operations with the victims aged 2, 6, 7, and 12. The conviction, handed down on March 11, 2022, came after the two accused struck a plea bargaining agreement to plead guilty to a lower offense related to online sexual exploitation. Lapu-Lapu City Assistant Prosecutor Antonio Aseniero, the fis
IACAT Two girls were rescued from online sexual exploitation activities in Capas, Tarlac last March 3, the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) said. In a statement, IACAT said the two girls – 12 and 15 years old – were rescued during the operation conducted by the Philippine Nation