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In the Philippines, sex trafficking of young girls moves online
Mar 23, 2016 7:42 PM EDT

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Sex tourism has long been a scourge in the Philippines. But now there's a disturbing new trend in the trafficking of mostly young women and children: vulnerable victims are being lured online and tricked into the trade. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports.
Next: a disturbing new trend in the trafficking of mostly young women and children into the sex trade.
Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from the Philippines on what police call cyber-trafficking.
It's part of his ongoing series Agents for Change.
Sex tourism has long been a scourge in the Philippines, an industry that thrives on trafficked human beings and deep poverty in this nation of 100 million.
Recent studies have shown that anywhere from 100 to more than 300 thousand Filipinos are trafficked each year; 80 percent, four out of five, are under the age of 18.
The government, under international pressure, has stepped up enforcement. Stings like this one to rescue young women are more common, as are arrests and convictions. But the sex trafficking industry, as always, seems a step ahead in the game.
IVY CASTILLO, Officer, Manila Police Cybercrime Center:
That's only one but there are a lot.
At the police cyber-crime center, officer Ivy Castillo explained one of the many ways that vulnerable young women are tricked into the trade.
So, they're pretending that this is a real modeling agency to entrap the young girls?
It has all the trappings of a glamorous fashion model agency, especially to a young rural Filipina girl.
At first, they are requested to send this image.
They're asked to submit pictures that seem innocuous, facial shots, ostensibly part of the selection process.
The next requirement is with a two-piece.
The next steps call for more revealing images, just the torso, not the face, they're assured, giving the false impression that it's unidentifiable. The young woman won't make the connection that computer software will, until it's too late.
They have got her face from her previous, more innocent images, and have Photoshopped them with the nude ones.
In no time, they are shamed and blackmailed into working for the opaque criminal networks behind the trade.
Lila Shahani is on a government task force on human trafficking.
LILA SHAHANI, Human Trafficking Task Force:
Cyber-pornography is easily one of our biggest problems. It's proliferated very quickly. and it's an expensive thing to police, and we're a Third World country.
But it's an industry fueled by First World demand, from pedophiles mostly in Europe, North America, and Australia, says officer Castillo.
These foreign perpetrators, they have contacts here in the Philippines, wherein these contacts are looking for children.
And perhaps the most frustrating challenge with this cyber-sex industry is a social one. Cecilia Oebanda, who founded the Philippines' largest anti-trafficking group, says many people don't believe or don't want to believe it's that harmful.
CECILIA FLORES-OEBANDA, Director, Visayan Forum Foundation:
Because they think that they're — the girls are just actually performing in the computer, and there's no contact, there is no touch. For them, it's OK. There's no harm actually put to the child.
At a shelter her agency runs is living proof that it's not just emotionally abusive, but also frequently escalates. The children are invariably inducted into traditional prostitution and its daily physical abuse.
These two 15-year-olds were rescued in a police sting from a cyber-porn racket. Their alleged pimp, a man named Jerrie Arraz began as a good samaritan neighbor.
There was a time when my mother need money because my stepfather was in jail. So she asked Jerrie for help.
He was really kind. When we didn't have food, he gave us food. Jerrie offered to send Gina to school.
This young woman is the 11th of 12 children in a family from one of the many rural Philippine islands beset by poverty and often natural disasters.
Opportunities are scarce, so, at 12, the offer of a scholarship from a kindly stranger, a man visiting to her village, was hard to resist.
He said that he's from Manila. So, I would say my dream is to study in Manila and to know the people, to — like, to wear nice clothes.
She accompanied the man to Manila, and was placed with Arraz, with whom he was apparently associated. She was in fact placed in school, but, gradually, there were demands, and they escalated, to display herself before strangers online, then to perform sexually and with Arraz in front of the camera.
He would wake me up to say there was a customer online and he wanted us to perform while the customer was watching. Each time, it happened, I just cried.
In time, the cyber-sex had escalated to plain old prostitution.
In a month, about four to five times, we met with foreign customers in a hotel, plus daily online.
It was when both girls were in a hotel one day that Arraz was nabbed as he negotiated with two undercover detectives posing as customers.
There were Caucasian — Caucasian undercover agents.
Prosecutor Jonathan Lledo was on the sting team, one of whose members hid in waiting.
He was inside the closet for four hours.
And the phone call rung that signaled that money exchanged hands. And we opened the door and announced. There was bewilderment. There was: What is happening here?
The young women, in terror, ran to their trafficker and to his defense.
We always felt like Jerrie was our father, so that's what we told rescuers. He is our father. We were really scared.
It's been called the Stockholm syndrome, Lledo says, one more complication in rescuing hostages who become sympathetic to their captor, and any change to what has become normal in their lives is unsettling.
The trafficker is providing them with food, clothing, shelter and a place to stay, and law enforcement will disrupt all this.
As it turns out, six children were removed from the home of Jerrie Arraz and placed with Oebanda's agency, including a 1-year-old infant abandoned by its mother.
The more immediate task is to try to restore childhoods through counseling and eventually adoption into homes, education and skills training for those older.
Most of our cases are referred from our foreign counterparts.
Philippine police officials say most of the enforcement comes from the consumer end. Tracking down providers is fraught with difficulty. They can be anywhere, evidence against them, if it exists, hidden in the cloud instead of a hard drive.
A lot of bad guys are not being caught, right?
Another big challenge is that police must rely on tips from the public, says task force member Shahani.
There is a real fear of — among informants of retaliation from big syndicates.
But Oebanda, who has long campaigned against trafficking, sees progress.
Our conviction rate has more than double. So, for me, that progress is indications of the political will.
Attention is now on Jerrie Arraz's trial, now under way in Manila. These images are from his Facebook page. It's the first so-called cyber-trafficking case to be brought, in hopes that it will mark a turning point.
For the "PBS NewsHour," this is Fred de Sam Lazaro in Manila.
Fred's reporting is a partnership with the Under-Told Stories Project at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.
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In the past few weeks, attention has continued to focus on the policy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints about youth interviews with the bishop. See here for a discussion of several small ways the Church has recently modernized its policy–but also why the changes don’t go far enough to protect young people.
Today’s guest post recounts a personal story of one woman’s experience of a humiliating youth interview with the bishop — one that continues to shape her life and choices as an adult. — JKR
When I was a young girl, my Mormon bishop asked me about my panties during a temple recommend interview.
I was a Beehive , only thirteen years old.
Born and raised in the Mormon church, I was very active in the faith, a good girl who had been cruising through my bishop’s temple recommend interview questions up until that point. I lived in a small, majority Mormon town in the Utah corridor and we had a temple nearby, so I’d interviewed with this same man the year before. I was thinking that our interview was almost over.
But this year, his questioning took a freaky turn. He asked me about my panties.
I froze, so he repeated himself and clarified: “Your underwear. Do you wear immodest underwear?”
I was a good girl. I dressed modestly. Besides, how could underwear be immodest?
But he kept at it. “Do you wear bikini underwear?”
The bishop’s daughter and I had been friends for years. I had spent many sleepovers at their house. We rough-housed in our pajamas, and sometimes I wore a nightgown. His daughter wore “granny panties” and I wore what in the eighties were called bikini underwear, or high-cut underwear with a low-cut waist. This bishop either heard about my underwear choice from his daughter when she saw me changing in her room, or maybe he had seen a flash of my underwear himself (or maybe his wife had?) while his daughter and I danced around their house playing dress-up or rough-housing, as we had done so many times.
And, apparently, this bishop didn’t approve of my bikini underwear.
With my face burning and my head lowered in shame, I nodded. Yes. Yes, I am guilty of immodest panties , my nods acquiesced. My bishop sat back in his chair, satisfied at the confession, then launched into a lecture about the importance of modest underwear.
Three decades later, I can’t recall a single word of his panty sermon, but I remember every second of throbbing shame as I sat there, forced to listen to it. Instead of believing in his counsel about panties, I was panicking inside, wondering if I was about to become the only Beehive in my class without a temple recommend. Would I be forced to skip our upcoming combined young men-young women temple trip to do baptisms because the bishop disapproved of my panties ?
As the bishop wrapped up his sermon on the dangers of bikini underwear, I looked up at him. Fear squeezed my stomach. This was it, the end of the sermon. This was when he would pronounce my fate. The big moment when he would either declare me unworthy to enter the temple—and by extension the kingdom of heaven—or grant me a pardon for the sin of . . . what commandment had I broken, exactly? More than three decades later, I still don’t know.
The bishop then issued a stern reprimand. Next, he warned me not to repeat the offense again, and counseled me to wear the “granny” style underwear that he preferred LDS girls to put on before going to the temple.
I left the bishop’s office on cloud nine and went out to the foyer feeling free and jubilant. I could join my peers! I wouldn’t be the odd one left out of our temple trip!
After that, I asked my mom to buy me some “granny panties” because I never wanted to feel as dirty, ashamed, or unworthy as I had in that temple interview, ever again. I felt that putting on panties in accordance with our bishop’s preferences would help me keep this spiritual high and put me in God’s favor. I also steered very clear of sleepovers at the bishop’s house after that day, and even decades later I still retain a faint paranoia of high-ranked LDS priesthood holders’ homes and their families, for fear of inadvertently doing something uncouth in front of them.
Instead, I only interact with them at church, where I’ve spent decades trying to earn praise and approval from bishops and other high-ranking leaders so that I can always earn the pardon and self-worth available in all future temple recommend interviews that I discovered when I was thirteen. It felt SO good to get that recommend after dangling on the precipice of unworthiness that day!
I married in the LDS temple, have a large family, and we have always been active Mormons; we still are. We pay full, honest tithes, and almost all my friends and family are in this church. I’ve never known anything different. Deep down, I still base my worth on that piece of paper from a judge in Israel (the bishop) that indicates I’m worthy to enter the house of God, and my self-esteem tends to fluctuate based on signs of validation that I receive from bishops or other high-ranked priesthood leaders.
I only recently began noticing how much I my mental health has suffered over the years because of this unhealthy addiction to their approval. I have sought bishops’ favor in church callings, weekly meetings, and temple recommend interviews the way kidnapping victims with Stockholm Syndrome adoringly cling to their captors. Even now I can’t break free. Like a stray dog in search of a handout, I crave validation from church leaders more than I crave affection from my own husband, because this traumatizing event defined and shaped some of my most formative years and who I am as a person. The lingering effects of that day definitely wreak havoc on the emotional (and sometimes physical) intimacy in my marriage.
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