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TINGOG party-list Rep. Yedda Romualdez on Sunday called on law enforcement authorities to !.atc, I
step up their campaign against online sexual exploitition of Filipino children following a police
bust on an international syndicate preying on minors in Central Visayas. /Page I I
 cess of their oDeration "at-risk" for assessment to ual exploitaLion of chil-
showed that only throueh determine if they, ioo. were
mternational coooerati5n dren.
victimized. Thev inctta"a The PICACC is a ioint
car we successfullv c.-- a l0-month-old. an 11- initiahve
Romualdez, chaimerson bat transnadonal chlld se\- behjreen the'Na-
of ihe House conmike€ on month-old, and hro two- tional Bureau of lft,estiea
ual e\ploitation," she add_ year-old kjds, accordins ro
the welfare ofchildren_ said tion and *re PNP suonrirr-
internatlonal cooDetation the International lusY;cp ed by tle Afp, UnitedRine,
among law enfo?cement ._ Recently, a series of po_ Mission {UM), a non-gov- dom National Crime Ase;-
uce operations in Bili;an ernment organization.- cy
agenoes was kev to the ner F
halization of the tran""r-
province led to the arrest of According
to IJM, the ' and ITM.
"I trirst that our taw
five traffickers who werp operahons resulied
tional child sexual e^Dloi- caught offering minor girls case referral from ftom ., enlorcement inits will con-
tation ring led bv an Aus- ror s€xuat erc)loitatim on- to the Philippine the AFp tinue workinq with inter-
tralian naAonrl ' line in e\chan:qe for monev Lnlnes Against htemet national aeEncies in,
"I commend the visi- trom an online Dredato'r cenfer (PICACC)Children stepped-ut camDaisn
lance of or:r law enforcers''in based reqard_ against seiual predato"rs
protecting our children in Australia_ mg a perpetrator cha:reed pre',rng on our drildren. The
Five yictims, with aees with child exploitationYre-
against criminals. Their dil_ ranging
ftom House of Representatives
igence in surveillance led old, were rescued 14 to 12 v€;rs laH offenses'in Australi, ls ready to extend its suD_
not only to the a est of lhe operations drlrins PICACC save the refpr- port to such endeavor in
by memberi ral ro the -WCpC-VFrr
serual predato$, but also ot the police's whatever wav Dossible.,,
to the res{ue of minors yi.- Women and which then conducted fur-
Chitdreal Probection Cen tc,_ Romualdez sdid.
timized by online exoloita- ther investigation to identi-
"Ow children deserve
Visayas Field Unit rwCR--
ty and loc;te fraffickers to live
tion," sjid Romuita", VF9, Philippine in peace at home.
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wife of House Maioritv Police (PNP)' units linked to the Aushalian per- tree trom criminals lurkins
Leader and Levte'ReJ. Ian, and other in Biti- petrator. in their neiehborhoods an8
Martin Romualdiz. intemational The PEACC serves as a online corimunities. We.
agencies. hub lor domestic Phitin- the parents, have the obli-
- "Let me also corn4end Aside
the toreig,r counterparts of ftom the five res_ pine and foreign law eir- gation to keep our children
c.u-ed victims, four other
our law enJorcers. fhe suc_ chllctren were removed as
torcement couaborative ef_ secure at all times, , she
forts to combat online sex_ adrl ed