Tag: child abuse

The TRUTH about St Scholastica kids being recruited into “activist” campaigns

July 21, 2017August 15, 2022 benign0 27 Comments

Once again, young students of exclusive Catholic school St Scholastica’s College were seen and photographed gathering in a rally seemingly to protest the “dictatorship” of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. It raises again the question of whether or not it is right to be conscripting minors into “activist” campaigns. The particularly important question organisers of these…

Education, Politics

‘Daisy’: Why I Lost Hope In The Philippines

February 25, 2016 Grimwald 20 Comments

WARNING: Mature readers only. This is NOT a joke. This issue continues to affect me on a very deep level. So there it is, it seems that the presidential debate is over (as covered here by Charles Englund) and people are now gearing up to celebrate the anniversary of the EDSA Revolution, the so-called bloodless revolution that…

Crime, Government, Society

3 Ways Philippine Society Today Is Abusive To Children

January 13, 2016January 13, 2016 Grimwald 36 Comments

From these articles, it can be surmised that majority of Filipino society seems to treat its children quite poorly. Contrary to being “child-friendly”, it seems that our apparent “wholesomeness” is just a front for more disturbing aspects of our society. Of course, I know that there will be those out there who will once again…

Culture, Education, Society

Andrea Brillantes: Latest victim of social media’s dark underbelly

July 10, 2015 benign0 24 Comments

The Net is on fire in the Philippines over the “viral” spread of a personal video allegedly of Filipino showbiz celebrity Andrea Brillantes. Brillantes, star of the hit TV drama series Annaliza, is only 12 years old. But this fact does not seem to stop online perverts from downloading and sharing the video. As of…

Crime, Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Operations to detain street children in the #Philippines before Pope Francis’s arrival reported!

January 15, 2015 benign0 25 Comments

A Daily Mail report is making waves asserting that the Philippines’ police have mounted an operation to “round up orphans and chain them in filth during pontiff’s visit to Philippines.” The report cites the testimony of a certain Catherine Scerri, deputy director of street children charity Bahay Tuluyan who says that all this is really…

Civics, Crime, Government, Religion, Society

Nigerian email scammers make way for Filipino online sextortionists!

May 6, 2014 benign0 2 Comments

It used to be Nigerian email phishers and scammers. Now it is Filipino sextortionists. It is big business, described to be “industrial” in scale in a Washington Post report involving using fake social media accounts to get in touch with victims overseas (usually in affluent countries) and trick them into exposing themselves on Webcams. The…

Crime, Tech Talk

Only under foreign pressure: Ph gov’t cracks down on sexual abuse of children over the Internet

January 20, 2014 benign0 39 Comments

Child abuse in the Philippines has been going on for the longest time. It is in plain sight. Some of it is relatively benign abuse, like allowing children to grow fat on a diet of soft drinks and junk food or making them perform in exploitative television variety shows. Others are horrid, using kids to…

Crime, Government, Media, Society

Willie Revillame and how we got the reform strategy so wrong since 1986

March 28, 2011 benign0 9 Comments

Stare into the eyes of Willie Revillame and you look right into the soul of the Filipino. Willie Revillame is The Filipino — the personification of the dreams and aspirations of the majority of the 100 million Filipinos who inhabit our little planet. In our condemning Revillame for his latest act of infamy, perhaps we…

Civics, Culture, Media, Society