One of the risks is the misuse of the internet and digital technologies for the purpose of child sexual exploitation and abuse. [...] The Philippines, through the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), along with the 13 countries across Eastern and Southern Africa and Southeast Asia, took part in this evidence-based undertaking to provide comprehensive evidence of the risks and threats that the children may face online and the ways that can prevent these. [...] Philippines, including several landmark studies, Between 30% and 40% of the children subjected such as the 2021 National Study on Online Sexual to the various forms of OCSEA captured in Abuse and Exploitation of Children in the Philippines the household survey did not tell anyone the (National Study on OSAEC) conducted by the last time this happened. [...] On abuse of children in the Philippines.3,4 The majority the other hand, in the Philippines the survey results of the OCSEA cases recorded and investigated suggested that offenders were most likely to be by law enforcement in the Philippines are, in persons unknown to the child. [...] Two legal officers from the Children’s Legal Bureau; a judge from the Pasig City Supreme Court; a judge from the Supreme Court of the Philippines; the Senior Assistant Provincial Prosecutor of Cebu from the Department of Justice; a police major from the Philippines National Police Women and Children Protection Center/Philippine Internet Crimes against Children Center; the Chief of the Trafficking.
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