- In the Philippines they have a custom of boarding students in the home in return for doing chores, babysitting, etc... Often they are family members though not always. These students can be from a rural area or another city or province. Transportation can be cost prohibitive in a land where most people are close to or at the minimum wage of 7 bucks a day to feed your often extended family on. These students are close to their school or collage and get fed and house for what ever they provide in the way of duties.
One families little boy 7 years old asked his parents if it was normal for kuya (Brother, not necessarily actual brother) to kiss on the lips for a long time, he said for around 20 min. He was also fondled, possibly more. The abuser, a working student distant relative was a teen or young adult...They had the student escourt the boy to and from school and babysit. He had also filled the child cellphone with Child Porn and Gay porn.
My wife has told me that Gays in the Philippines consider post-puberty boys as fair game and often bribe these teens with money or junk food etc... This is not often prosecuted as the people consider it a joke or funny.
- A Tomboy (Filipino term for lesbian) Was always offering to babysit a little 3 year old girl. The child ended up dying in the hospital due to internal injuries fro9m whatever the Lesbian Pedophile stuck into her vagina.
Lesson to be learned is babysit your own kids and you need to be wary of even family members..
Yes, but those were the two cases my wife told me about from the show. Philippines has a low age of consent aimed at boys and girls around the same age.
Philippines actually has a law against being alone with a non-relative child. Also a lot of things happen both good and bad before someone is arrested. They have government on the neighborhood level (Barangay) These are PT jobs with low pay buy benefits like SSS and PhilHealth etc... So many problems are handled at that level. Then there is a lot of people salvaged by the Cops (Drug dealers and some users. NPA are a non-Muslim, Communist rebel group that meets out vigilante justice, but doesn't bother expats as long as they aren't naughty.
On the other hand, sometimes a criminal can bribe the victim or their family for it not to go to the city hall...