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View all search resultsPhilippines arrests 11 over online child porn
Philippine authorities said Wednesday they had detained11 people in raids on two fake call center businesses that sold childpornography online to global clients
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hilippine authorities said Wednesday they had detained11 people in raids on two fake call center businesses that sold childpornography online to global clients.
The raids came after police said this month the Philippines had become a major source of pornographic content in the fast-growing child cybersex industry, and vowed to crack down on those involved.
The raids took place overnight Tuesday on two Manila businesses that used nude pictures of children, as well as adults, to entice people online to subscribe to pornographic websites, the National Bureau of Investigation said. 'They were caught in flagrante [in the act of wrongdoing],' Ronald Aguto, head of the bureau's cybercrime unit, told AFP, in reference to the 11 Filipinos who had been detained. 'Some of the computers contained child pornography as well as adult pornography.'
Some of the nude photographs on the computers were of unidentified Filipino children aged about 12-16, according to Aguto
