Children's rights advocates in Southeast Asia are warning that online child sexual abuse is rising, as countries close schools and impose various levels of lockdown.
"We're talking about on-demand, child sexual abuse and exploitation that is being livestreamed from traffickers in the Philippines to child sex offenders around the world, primarily in Western countries," he says."The sex offenders go online and they connect with these traffickers and then they'll direct them and pay them to sexually abuse children of specific ages in specific ways and to livestream that abuse.
"It's definitely a concern," says Rosario Hernández, development officer of the Cambodian nongovernmental organization In addition to stay-at-home rules, layoffs have begun in various sectors in Cambodia and elsewhere, which is compounding economic problems. Although it's taboo in Cambodian society to exploit one's children for money, Hernández says,"people sometimes go through desperate measures because they're hungry.", part of an international network advocating to end sexual exploitation of children.
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