Bangkok: South-East Asia is in the grip of a fresh surge of paedophile activity with predators orchestrating and watching abuse on live-streaming sites and via webcams, and paying for it with near-untraceable cryptocurrency, victims and children’s charities warn.
With widespread poverty, lax laws and creaking judicial systems, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines have long been seen as soft spots by foreign and local paedophiles seeking out underage sex in person.
“Predators watch the rapes on large platforms that are not likely to close,” said François Xavier Souchet, of Thai-based NGO Terre des Hommes.“They pay more and more in Bitcoins, encrypted money makes their transactions as secure as possible,” he added. Cassie, a Filipina victim, said she was just 12 when she was forced to commit sexual acts – both with an adult man and alone – in front of a webcam.
“Easy access to the web and money transfer services make the country a global hotspot for this problem,” said IJM, noting that it is often parents or family members that organise or even commit the abuse.
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