Credit: Kristian Buus /Corbis via Getty Images Girls performing in a play on child sex trafficking and abuse in a Manila slum. “Offenders often request how they want the child to be sexually abused either before or during the live-streaming session,” the report said. The live-streaming nature of the material was particularly sickening, the institute’s report noted, because of the real-time element. The institute said it matched the transactions using AUSTRAC (Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre) records that linked the accounts in Australia to people arrested for child sexual exploitation in the Philippines. The shocking statistics were revealed on Wednesday in a report by the Australian Institute of Criminology, which says it has identified more than 2,700 financial transactions linked to 256 webcam child predators between 20.
Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >Īnd the offenders often request how they want the child to be sexually abused as the crimes are happening, a new report says.