Highly worrying: Paedophiles can now use an array of mobile and online tools to direct and watch child rape and sexual abuse with anonymity, experts warn. — Reuters
Bangkok: South-East Asia is in the grip of a fresh surge of paedophile activity with predators orchestrating and watching abuse on live-streaming sites and via webcams, and paying for it with near-untraceable cryptocurrency, victims and children’s charities warn.
With widespread poverty, lax laws and creaking judicial systems, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines have long been seen as soft spots by foreign and local paedophiles seeking out underage sex in person.
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