Cordova cybersex victims ‘doing well’

THE children who were allegedly exploited by their parents in a cybersex racket are doing well, Cebu Vice Gov. Agnes Magpale said yesterday.

Magpale, who visited the children last Saturday, told Cebu Daily News that she wanted the couple to know about their situation.

“They look  very healthy. I am assuring the parents that they are okay,” she said.

The youngest among them, a 4-year-old, is in preschool. Magpale said the Provincial Women’s Commission will  “see the children through.”

When asked if this could mean that the children would stay in the institution until college, she said there are cases that it happened.

She said a teenager whose father is in jail acquired a bachelor’s degree in nursing.

The parents of the children were charged with qualified trafficking and child abuse following their arrest in a raid at their home in Cordova town, south of Mactan Island, last June.

The hearing on the cyber pornography case in Cordova was rescheduled to Dec. 9 because the court wanted the full transcript of the interview of the victims translated to English. Correspondent Carmel Loise Matus