Philippines emerges as global hub of online child pornography

By Sara Gómez Armas Manila, June 10 (efe-epa).- A Filipino boy of about 12 years of age wiggles to music as he suggestively lowers his pants in a Twitter video, which lasts justs 10 seconds and ends just short of showing the boy naked. In order to watch the full version, one has to follow the account, attributed to a certain Alfonso Santos, send a private message and pay 500 pesos ($10). In exchange, they promise much more #baget content, a hashtag under which an infinite amount of online material showing the sexual abuse of minors is easily found. “Baget” is a Tagalog term roughly translated as “young boy,” as the Philippines establishes itself as a global hub of online child...