The Filipino mothers selling their children for online sexual abuse
May 30, 2021 8:28 AM PHT
Neil Jayson ServallosPhilippine Center for Investigative Journalism
First of four parts.
Trigger warning: This article contains depictions of child sexual abuse.
The coronavirus pandemic forced Carmen Lirio , 31, to close down in March 2020 a snack stand she was running in front of a school in the town of Baliwag in Bulacan, a province just outside the country’s capital.
She has five children. Unless she found another way to earn money, the entire family would have to rely on her husband’s meager salary as barangay tanod or village watchman.
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Reality TV star Josh Duggar charged for possessing child sex abuse materials
May 1, 2021 2:32 PM PHT
Reuters
Joshua James Duggar, the 33-year-old former star of the popular reality TV show
19 Kids and Counting, appeared in federal court on Friday, April 30 to face criminal charges that he received and possessed materials that depicted the sexual abuse of children, the US Justice Department said.
A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney s Office for the Western District of Arkansas confirmed that Duggar made his initial appearance in federal court and pleaded not guilty to the charges, which allege he obtained the sexually explicit material sometime between May 14 and May 16 of 2019.
[OPINION] What about us? Boys need protection, too
Apr 15, 2021 8:07 AM PHT
Lois Engelbrecht
In 2019, the Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse (CPTCSA), a 25-year-old non-profit, non-government, child-focused institution working towards a safe world for children free from sexual abuse and exploitation, launched its annual theme, “What about us?” The goal was to raise awareness about the needs of boys and the gaps in services to meet those needs.
We did this not because we felt that boys needed more attention than girls, but because we knew that boys needed as much attention as girls.
The Philippines is primarily a patriarchal society, even though it has a strong matriarchal component within that patriarchy. It is the predominant patriarchal part of society that appears to have led many to assume that girls, therefore, are not getting an equal piece of the coconut pie. Many of us joined the global focus on “girl power” in an attempt to right