Led by police in the Philippines, a new global anti-child sex abuse taskforce started dissecting the U.S. citizen's digital footprint in order to track down the exploited girls. "Those images were very sexually explicit ... disturbing," said William Macavinta, the Filipino police general heading the unit that launched this year to combat cybersex trafficking - a form of modern slavery where children are abused over webcam. "It was clear that we had to move fast to extract the children," said Macavinta, whose country is considered by campaigners to be the epicentre of the fast-growing trade. Three weeks later, British and Australian cops assembled with their local counterparts one evening just before dusk, and raided a slum located on fishing docks in the capital, Manila. The taskforce did not find the alleged local offender but rescued five girls - aged 10 to 13 - who had been groomed and directed to perform sex acts over livestream by the American. Tens of thousands of girls in the … [Read more...] about Global taskforce tackles cybersex child trafficking in the Philippines