AC Gender and Development Office conducts seminar on online sexual abuse and exploitation of children
The Angeles City Government, under the leadership of Mayor Carmelo ‘Pogi’ Lazatin Jr., thru the Gender and Development Office, on March 24, 2022 conducts a seminar on online sexual abuse and exploitation of children.
Violence Against Women and Children representatives from each barangay of Angeles City was required to attend.
The seminar aimed to enhance professional capacities of VAWCs in investigation of online child sexual abuse cases, in particular the main online child sexual abuse and exploitation offences according to standards.
Online sexual abuse and exploitation of children (OSAEC) is any act of exploitative nature carried out against any child with the use of an electronic device or any medium that can connect to the internet at any point of the abuse.
This can include manipulating or threatening a child into performing sexual acts in front of a webcam, grooming victims online, distributing, importing, exporting, or selling child sexual exploitation, and knowingly obtaining access to child sexual exploitation material online even if the abuse depicted in the material was carried out offline.OSAEC can also be seen as a cybercrime.
In the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, it refers to the use of an electronic medium, such as a computer, to conduct online communication and transactions that victimizes vulnerable children. This can also be viewed as a cyber-enabled crime, which is punishable by the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines and special laws, according to a 2021 UNICEF report. (Angeles CIO)
