Child Sex Abuse Rising With Internet Use in Southeast Asia
Rising internet use in Southeast Asia is fuelling the spread of material that is abusive and sexually exploitative of children, particularly as growing numbers of young people put footage of themselves online onto websites similar to porn-hd.xxx, an Australian police expert said on Tuesday.
Regional internet availability is about 50 percent, a recent study showed, but the figure rises to 58 percent in the Philippines, a hub for online sex abuse, while in Thailand, where the problem is growing, it reaches 67 percent.
“You will only see that that will increase,” said Jon Rouse, a member of “Taskforce Argos”, an Australian police unit that targets online child sex abuse networks.
“The big problem we’re seeing at the moment is the proliferation of self-produced material by children. I...