Mother nabbed for sexually exploiting young daughter

AGENTS of the National Bureau of Investigation have apprehended the mother of an 11-year-old girl for sexually exploiting her young daughter.

NBI Director Jaime Santiago said the victim’s aunt was also arrested by operatives of the agency’s Human Trafficking Division (NBI-HTRAD) in an entrapment and rescue operation last Tuesday, June 25.

The girl’s mother and aunt offered the former for sexual exploitation, Santiago added.

“This is a case that the mother was selling photographs of her daughter to foreigners for as much as P25,000,” Santiago said in mixed Filipino and English in a press briefing yesterday afternoon at the NBI headquarters in Quezon City.

He said it started when the victim was only five years old.

“Now, she is 11 years old,” the NBI chief said, adding she was also made to perform live sex shows by her mother and aunt.

In the same briefing, NBI-HTRAD chief Olga Gonzales said the entrapment and rescue operation stemmed from information provided by a non-government organization that there were two Telegram users going by the user name Yna and Ayvah who were selling live and recorded sexual videos to foreigners.

Gonzales said as soon as her unit received and validated the information, they immediately planned the operation using an undercover agent, who verified the two were offering live and recorded sexual videos for a fee.

“We were able to prove that they would offer the young girl,” Gonzales added.

The NBI was assisted in the operation by the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking, DOJ Cyber Tip Monitoring Center, NGO Exodus Road, and the Quezon City Social Welfare and Development Office.

Santiago said complaints for violation of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2002, Anti-Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children and the Special Protection of Children Against Abuse, Exploitation, and Discrimination have been filed against the suspects.

The victim was brought to the Quezon City Social Welfare and Development office.

When he assumed the top NBI post, Santiago vowed to intensify the crackdown against cyber scams as well as human trafficking and sexual abuse and exploitation of minors.

Last June 18, state prosecutors indicted a Nueva