A wall is plastered with pictures of men suspected of soliciting an underage girl for webcam sex while a Terre des Hommes researcher, center rear, takes the identoty of fake 10-year-old Sweetie from the Philippines, top left, in a computer-generated image, during a media opportunity in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday Nov. 4, 2013. The Dutch children's rights organization has for years worked to combat child prostitution in Southeast Asia and staff noticed in recent years that young prostitutes were disappearing from their usual haunts, cafes, restaurants and hotels haunted by sex tourists. They discovered that with the proliferation of high-speed internet connections around the world sex tourists are now able to exploit children from their own homes. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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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