Imported perversion: Rise in child-exploitation content from Vietnam raises concern for Cambodian minors


Combo showing a phone containing porn content and drawing of children. - Illustration: Adobe Stock via Khmer Times

PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times): Child-exploitation content and other forms of extreme pornography are now more available to Cambodians than ever, thanks mainly to the distribution from syndicates in Vietnam, causing concern about their impacts among Cambodian minors amid the rising cases of child sexual abuse in the country.

The last major headlines about child pornography in Cambodia occurred in 2018, when the US Embassy in Phnom Penh dismissed nearly three dozen employees after a Facebook group chat containing alleged child exploitation material was discovered.

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