Inquirer Technology
writer Nancy C. Carvajal provides a
report about the arrest of three people in Manila, Philippines who were accused
of running an on-line prostitution and human trafficking operation by the
National Bureau of Investigation. The “members-only” website was used to set up
trafficking victims with their “members”.
The undercover operation joined the web-site as a customer and gathered
evidence which led to the arrest of the three suspects, who are all being
detained under charges of child abuse and violation of anti-trafficking laws.
The news of yet another
arrest of perpetrators who profit from the degradation and suffering of other
humans is not the reason I chose this article.
Arrests like this are occurring all the time across the globe as the
fight against human trafficking continues.
What caught my attention was the fact that the alleged ringleader was
using the internet to run his business.
Most people who hear stories of trafficking, myself included, often
think of girls and children being lured or kidnapped from the streets and
transported to other countries as sex slaves. With so many young people having
access to the internet, the risk of getting caught into this web of deceit is
high. So many kids are lured from home
with promises of a better life that police all over the world have to now
patrol “cyperspace” as well as protect the real streets of communities. Since pornography
is rampant on the internet, I should not have been surprised that business like
this would be too. It means to me that
traffickers will use any means possible to exploit others-and that there are
people all over the world willing and able to pay for their “services”.
What a sad, sad world we
live in.
Shannon Yaw
4/13/13 5:55pm
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