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Sickening discovery at Sydney airport exposed - with 16 children
saved from unthinkable abuse in Philippines
By ASHLEY NICKEL FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
PUBLISHED: 20:10 EDT, 4 July 2023 | UPDATED: 20:12 EDT, 4 July 2023
A combined effort between Australian and Filipino police has seen a record number of children rescued from sexual abuse.
The large-scale operation was kicked off in January when Australian Border Force officers in Sydney searched a Queensland man's luggage as he returned from the Philippines.
The officers allegedly found child abuse material and messages detailing the man's alleged plan to pay a third party to sexually abuse children in the Philippines.
An arrest warrant has been issued for the Queenslander after he failed to appear in court on May 30.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) shared the information with the Philippine National Police (PNP) and Philippine Internet Crimes Against Children Centre (PICACC), leading to the record rescue.
A record number of children were rescued from child sex abuse in the Philippines after a Queensland man was allegedly caught with child abuse material (pictured, a child being rescued in the northern Philippines)
On June 22 and 23 the PNP executed warrants are four locations in Taguig and Nueva Vizcaya, in the country's north, where 16 children were found.
The youngest child was just 10 years old.
It's believed to be the largest number of children saved from sexual abuse at one time.
All the children have been placed into the care of the Philippine Department of Social Welfare and Development.
The Philippine National Police rescued 16 children (one above) after Australian Federal Police shared information about the discovered abuse material
AFP Senior Officer in Manila, Detective Superintendent Andrew Perkins said the disturbing case highlights why international partnerships are essential to stopping child predators.
The PICACC has rescued 611 children and seen 127 alleged facilitators arrested since it was established in 2019.
'This case highlights how vital it is for law enforcement agencies to share intelligence and resources globally, because predators are not confined by borders,' Det Supt Perkins said.
'This is a record number of children rescued in a single operation and we are grateful to be able to support the efforts of the Philippine National Police and the Philippine Internet Crimes Against Children Centre to remove these children from harm.
'However, these children's lives have been irrecoverably damaged and we know there are too many other children still at risk.
'That is why we will never give up our fight to keep children safe and stop those who try to exploit or abuse them.'
Of those 218 victims rescues - including a six-year-old girl who was rescued last month - and 49 of the alleged offenders arrests were the result of AFP assistance.
Chief of the Philippine National Police Women and Children Protection Centre, Police Colonel Portia Manalad said collaboration is essential to its operation.
'We must collaborate with our international partners, such as the AFP, to arrest offenders and rescue child victims,' she said.
The Queensland man has been charged with intentionally importing tier two goods (which includes child abuse material), possessing child abuse material or using a carrier service and grooming a person to make it easier to engage in sexual activity with a child outside of Australia.
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Research has finally caught up to what I have been saying for many years - Child sex abuse is rampant in Indigenous Canadian communities and Residential Schools have a lot to do with it. Now, hopefully, they will get to the next revelation that child sex abuse is behind the very high rates of suicide among Indigenous children.
Research highlights alarming rates of sexual abuse among
Indigenous Canadian children
MAY 31, 2023
by Ray Sharma
SFU News
A study led by Simon Fraser University criminology researchers has found that rates of child sexual abuse (CSA) among Indigenous Canadians surveyed were three to five times higher than global estimates, while those with parents or family members who attended residential schools are at significantly greater risk of experiencing CSA.
Content warning: mention of residential schools and sexual abuse. Resources for residential school survivors can be found here. Resources for sexual assault survivors and their loved ones can be found here.
SFU researchers Maaike Helmus and Ashley Kyne, whose research is published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, found that according to the surveyed experiences of 282 Indigenous Canadians across the country, CSA was reported by 35 per cent of males, 50 per cent of females, and 57 per cent of transgender and gender non-conforming participants.
The rates are drastically higher than global meta-analytic estimates which report that 7.6 per cent of boys and 18 per cent of girls on average experience sexual abuse as children.
These, of course, are very conservative estimates since the vast majority of child sex abuse is never reported. In many countries, barely 5 or 10% of cases are reported.
Their recommendations include the need for more trauma-informed services to address the lasting harms of colonization, in line with recommendations from Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
“Child sexual abuse is a public health concern globally, but socioeconomic factors place some children at higher risk than others; our findings show that sexual abuse amongst Indigenous Canadian children is a significant public health crisis that requires immediate attention and considered action,” says Helmus, an assistant professor in SFU’s School of Criminology.
“The long-lasting consequences of colonization have placed Indigenous Canadian children at greater risk of exploitation, with layers of marginalization such as gender and social class further exacerbating the risk.”
The researchers note that the nature of CSA can vary widely, as can impacts on survivors based on their age and resilience factors, with long-lasting effects leading to extensive and diverse complications. Long-term damages to victims may include physical health complications (such as chronic pain, high blood pressure and obesity), involvement in high-risk sexual behaviour, mental health complications (particularly, self-harm), and struggles with unemployment.
Consequently, victims of CSA may also be at higher risk of involvement in the criminal justice system.
Indigenous people are far more numerous in Canadian prisons than they should be. Friends who work in the prison system or who have been inmates in the prison system tell me that the majority of people in prisons have been sexually abused as children.
The research further discovered that Indigenous Canadian children whose parents or extended family members attended residential schools are at a considerably greater risk of experiencing sexual abuse.
According to Helmus and Kyne, there are many reasons this could be the case. For example, one explanation is because of the abused-abuser hypothesis, whereby Indigenous Canadians who formerly attended residential schools and experienced mistreatment as children themselves become more likely to abuse consequent generations, particularly within their own family, further perpetuating the intergenerational trauma generated by the residential school system.
Other reasons could include residential schools interfering with the development of healthy parenting skills, which could leave subsequent generations more vulnerable to abuse by other individuals in the community, especially given increases in foster care placement of Indigenous children.
While their study focused on the experiences of Indigenous Canadian children, the researchers say comparable patterns are likely to be found in the United States, Australia and New Zealand given the similar, lasting consequences of colonization in those nations. Although further research is needed, Helmus and Kyne suspect that the public health and criminal justice issues caused by colonization are similar across the four former British colonies.
View their full research here.
Great work, you two. Thank you.
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