In September 2020, the Supreme Court of the Philippines acquitted a man of child sexual abuse charges after he impregnated a 12-year-old girl. The incident took place in 2012, when the man was 27. He ...

Child rescue groups are trying to save victims from sex trafficking in the Philippines. But a DW investigation found that they could be enabling abuse.This article contains descriptions of sexual ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Government agents raided an Internet child porn operation based in a Philippine school and arrested its president and eight other people, investigators said Tuesday. The ...

Rapist and sex trafficker Peter Scully of Australia (R), seen handcuffed to another prisoner in a 2015 file photo, has been sentenced to 129 years in jail - Copyright ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines ...

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has signed a bill prohibiting child marriage, while 44 U.S. states still have legal loopholes that allow the practice to continue. Although Duterte signed the ...

The leader of a Philippines-based church was charged with having sex with women and underage girls who faced threats of abuse and "eternal damnation" unless they catered to the self-proclaimed "son of ...

The United States said Wednesday it would provide $5.5 million to the Philippines to help combat the use of child labor. The initiative seeks to remove 18,000 children from hazardous work sites and ...

MANILA: Child rescue groups are trying to save victims from sex trafficking in the Philippines. But a Deutsche Welle (DW) investigation found that they could be enabling abuse. In July 2021, a ...