The latest perv to get busted is a couple who pimped out her 16 year old niece to perform sex shows on a web cam.
I think we all agree this is wrong. But anti-trafficking law being used is so broad, it can cover anything. Here, "trafficking" is merely a women asking her niece to come over to her house.
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Couple charged for trafficking
By Gerome M. Dalipe
Friday, August 9, 2013
A COUPLE from Cordova town, Cebu was charged for trafficking two minors for online pornography business.
Lawyer Liza Tan of the International Justice Mission (IJM) assisted the two female minors in filing the charges of qualified trafficking in persons and child abuse against the couple before the Office of the Cebu Provincial Prosecutor on Aug. 7.
Sun.Star Cebu is withholding the names of the suspects, who are relatives of the trafficked victims, to protect the identity of the victims.
In her complaint-affidavit, 16-year-old Janet (not her real name) said her aunt told her in 2009 that a foreigner was looking for a young girl of her age to perform sexual acts in front of a computer.
Her aunt assured her the foreigner could not have actual sex with her since all she had to do was to show her private parts infront of a camera installed in the computer.
At first, Janet said she refused and got scared.
But her aunt convinced her by telling her the money she would earn could help her parents.
The victims’ father is a fisherman and her mother is a housewife.
To help her parents financially, Janet went to their grandmother’s house in Barangay Ibabao, Cordova town, where her aunt is living.
There, Janet was made to perform lewd acts in front of a computer before an American tourist.
Her aunt also joined her in performing sexual acts.
After the show, Janet received P200 from her aunt. The victim performed more shows.
“There were times when I refused to do a show or I would frown after a show because I felt bad doing it,” Janet said in her affidavit.
Janet said her aunt’s husband told her doing the show was just fine since all she had to do is to “show” her naked body. Janet said her aunt also made her 15-year-old sister to perform sexual acts in front of the computer-mounted camera.
Janet said her aunt’s husband also sexually abused her.
In December 2012, she recalled her uncle asked her to massage his back and perform sexual act.
When she refused, the suspect insisted and told Janet to “think about it without malice.”
“I refused and my body started to shake. I did not know what to do,” she said.
Janet left her grandmother’s house on March 23, 2013. She said her uncle even courted her, sent her text messages on her birthday.
“He called me over the phone, asked me to go out with him. He said he missed me when I
left,” Janet said.
Janet’s younger sister also executed an affidavit corroborating the allegations against the couple.
She said she decided to file the complaint against her aunt and uncle after learning that her seven-year-old niece was also made to perform sexual acts online.