IS IT STILL A NO FOR CYBERCRIME LAW?

Despite the attention that the government is giving to cyberpornography, the top crime in the country today, there is still tough competition amongst the ‘evil market’ which is paid by the patrons for engaging innocent children in sexual acts for online pornography.

          Based on reports, poverty is the primary reason why children are being held and forced to work, a work which made them victims of sexual abuse. There has been numerous cases jotted down in different police office, be it in rural or in urban areas in the country.

          The record shows that children, in as young as five years old are being used in this field of filthy work. Also, most of the patrons are from different countries, where they pay for a hundred dollar for viewing a live sexual acts performed by children.

          Children are supposed to be playing with other kids, fed with abundant of essential information, advised with moral values and sent to school. In a family unit, somebody could have shown concern or paid attention on whatever a child member is up to.

          How those parents came to not know the hideous situations of their children is almost impossible, unless they are the ones to voluntarily take their children in front of a small camera connected on a desktop, teaching those little ones how to perform the patron’s demands online.

          It is not much of a surprise for people from across the globe to exploit Filipino children sexually, especially in this era where people do less but gain much by the aid of technology. In just a click away, the patrons get to watch and feed their lustful desires while the victims get paid with a certain amount, enough to make him/ her be ever present in another transaction.

It is as crystal clear that tougher laws are needed to be implemented. But the freeze of the cybercrime law, limits the power of the Department of Justice to fight against cybercrimes, including the cyberpornography.

The said law was passed by the Congress on September 2012 which aims to stop cybercrimes which include fraud, identity theft, spamming and child pornography, which is what we need to halt the continuous rising of this case in the country.

What those children need are real guardians, and what the government need is simply to provide them that.

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