Philippine Police starts Internet porn operation from a school

Philippine Govt. agents raided in an Internet child porn operation based in a Philippine school and arrested its president and eight other people.

The school had 2,000 elementary and high school students, Aguto added. Its license was revoked in 2006 for unknown reasons but it had remained open.

The Philippines has rapidly become a key hub of the billion-dollar global child cybersex industry, with operators aided by widespread poverty and legal loopholes that allow them to remain anonymous, police said.

 Some of the 31 suspects in an alleged Internet porn operation arrested by National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) agents in three separate location cover themselves at the Cybercrime Division of the NBI in Manila.-AFP Photo

Filipino young girls and boys sit in an Internet cafe in Manila. The Philippine Supreme Court ruled on February 18 that a controversial cybercrime law penalising online libel is constitutional, amid claims it is intended to curb Internet freedom in one of Asia's most freewheeling democracies.-AFP Photo