IRELAND
Herald
BY JOYCE FEGAN – 16 MAY 2014
Irish priest Fr Shay Cullen says the Church and Government have been shamefully silent on child sex abuse for too long.
The three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee also said that “silence about child abuse is a crime”.
Fr Cullen has been working in the Philippines for the past 50 years, and was speaking about online child pornography.
He said there is now a new ploy being used by paedophiles to capture pornography called “sextortion”.
Criminals ask young people to expose themselves and perform sex acts in the privacy of their room before an internet connected camera, “thinking they are in a relationship over the internet”, the priest told the
“Unknown to them, the act is recorded in a distant country by the perpetrators, as in the Philippines, and the criminals then say they recorded it and threaten to make it public to his or her family and friends unless they pay the extortionist.”
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