With the UN and FBI suspecting that there are up to 750,000 people online at any one time hunting for children to exploit, how can the booming cybersex trade be policed effectively? Kicking off BBC Three’s Gender Season, Stacey Dooley presents the first of two hard-hitting films from some of the worst places in the world to be female. She investigates why some young women today live in such dangerous, desperate and degrading conditions. In this episode Stacey travels to the Philippines - fast becoming the world capital of the cybersex industry. Here, girls who are rarely let out and often underage must perform on webcams and be photographed for a global online audience. Within the last year alone, 139 Brits were investigated for paying to watch Philippine children being abused. Stacey learns how poverty combined with cheap internet access has led to an increasing number of girls being exposed to online sexual abuse. Discovering the harrowing truth behind this widespread exploitation, Stacey then exposes an even darker side - cybersex dens. We see Stacey at her best as she goes undercover for the first time and follows the police on a major sting, bringing her face-to-face with the criminals behind this new and disturbing phenomenon. She also travels north of Manila and learns that efforts are being made to help some of the 100,000 victims of exploitation, using therapy and counselling from psychologists - some of whom have suffered the same abuse as the children they are helping. Stacey is overwhelmed at the sheer scale of this billion dollar industry, but remains hopeful that if police forces across the world work together, there's a chance this secretive trade can be tackled.
| Title | Stacey Dooley Investigates - Season 7 Episode 1 : Saving the Cyber Sex Girls |
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| Alternative Titles | Stacey Dooley Investigates: My Hometown Fanatics, Stacey Dooley Investigates: The Truth about Magaluf, Stacey Dooley Investigates: Young Sex for Sale in Japan, Stacey Dooley Investigates: Canada's Lost Girls, Stacey Dooley Investigates: Mums Selling Their Kids for Sex, Stacey Dooley Investigates: Kids Selling Drugs Online, Stacey Dooley Investigates: The Billion Pound Party, Stacey Dooley Investigates: Second Chance Sex Offenders, Stacey Dooley Investigates: Russia's War on Women, Stacey Dooley Investigates: Gypsy Kids Taken From Home |
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| First Air Date | 2009-10-01 |
| Last Air Date | 2018-11-13 |
| Number of Episodes | 37 |
| Number of Seasons | 11 |
| Genres | Documentary, Crime, |
| Networks | BBC Three, |
| Casts | Stacey Dooley |
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Episodes List
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Stacey Dooley Investigates Season 7 :Episode 1 Saving the Cyber Sex Girls Saving the Cyber Sex Girls
2015-10-19Stacey Dooley investigates current affairs issues affecting young people around the world.
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Stacey Dooley Investigates Season 7 :Episode 2 World's Worst Place to Be a Woman? World's Worst Place to Be a Woman?
2015-10-26Stacey Dooley investigates current affairs issues affecting young people around the world.
