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(Pixabay / FILE PHOTO) “There is a 117 percent increase in OSEC convictions from 2019 to 2020,” Justice Undersecretary Emmeline Aglipay-Villar said on Sunday, April 11.  Villar, who is also the undersecretary in charge of the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT), said the DOJ secured 100 OSEC convictions in 2020 compared to 46 in 2019. The number of convictions in 2020 is also higher than the 49 convictions in 2018, 29 in 2017, six in 2016, 10 in 2015, six in 2014, and two in 2013, she said. Of the 100 convictions in 2020, 34 of them were for violations of Republic Act No. 9208, the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003, she noted. The 66 other convictions were for other related laws including RA 7610 or the Special Protection of Children Against Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination Act; RA 9775 or  the Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009; RA 9995 or the Anti-Photo and Video Voyeurism Act of 2009; RA 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012; and viola

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