The Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009 (Republic Act 9775) provides extensive protections for children and prohibits various acts related to child pornography. It defines children broadly to include those under 18 as well as those unable to care for themselves. The definition also encompasses digitally altered images meant to depict children engaging in sexual acts. Producing, distributing, or possessing child pornography is illegal under the law. Criminal liability extends not only to direct offenders but also to internet service providers, internet content hosts, internet cafes, and their officers who fail to report violations. The law requires identification of offenders and enables extradition for child pornography offenses.
The Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009 (Republic Act 9775) provides extensive protections for children and prohibits various acts related to child pornography. It defines children broadly to include those under 18 as well as those unable to care for themselves. The definition also encompasses digitally altered images meant to depict children engaging in sexual acts. Producing, distributing, or possessing child pornography is illegal under the law. Criminal liability extends not only to direct offenders but also to internet service providers, internet content hosts, internet cafes, and their officers who fail to report violations. The law requires identification of offenders and enables extradition for child pornography offenses.
The Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009 (Republic Act 9775) provides extensive protections for children and prohibits various acts related to child pornography. It defines children broadly to include those under 18 as well as those unable to care for themselves. The definition also encompasses digitally altered images meant to depict children engaging in sexual acts. Producing, distributing, or possessing child pornography is illegal under the law. Criminal liability extends not only to direct offenders but also to internet service providers, internet content hosts, internet cafes, and their officers who fail to report violations. The law requires identification of offenders and enables extradition for child pornography offenses.
The Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009 (Republic Act 9775) provides extensive protections for children and prohibits various acts related to child pornography. It defines children broadly to include those under 18 as well as those unable to care for themselves. The definition also encompasses digitally altered images meant to depict children engaging in sexual acts. Producing, distributing, or possessing child pornography is illegal under the law. Criminal liability extends not only to direct offenders but also to internet service providers, internet content hosts, internet cafes, and their officers who fail to report violations. The law requires identification of offenders and enables extradition for child pornography offenses.
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REPUBLIC ACT NO.
9775 Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009 The Anti-Child Pornography law (Republic Act 9775) was passed on October 13 last year and signed on November 17 by President Gloria Arroyo.. Among the unlawful acts covered by the law are: Section 4. Unlawful or Prohibited Acts. - It shall be unlawful for a person to commit any of the following acts: (a) To hire, employ, use, persuade, induce or coerce a child to perform in the creation or production of child pornography; (b) To produce, direct, manufacture or create any form of child pornography and child pornography materials; (c) To sell, offer, advertise and promote child pornography and child pornography materials; (d) To possess, download, purchase, reproduce or make available child pornography materials with the intent of selling or distributing them; (e) To publish, post, exhibit, disseminate, distribute, transmit or broadcast child pornography or child pornography materials; (f) To knowingly possess, view, download, purchase or in any way take steps to procure, obtain or access for personal use child pornography materials; and (g) To attempt to commit child pornography by luring or grooming a child.
The law provides extensive protection to children, as set forth in the definition of children in Section 3(a) Section 3. Definition of Terms. (a) "Children" refers to persons below eighteen (18) years of age or those over but are unable to fully take care of themselves or protect themselves from abuse, neglect, cruelty, exploitation or discrimination because of a physical or mental disability or condition. For the purpose of this Act, a child shall also refer to: (1) a person regardless of age who is presented, depicted or believed to be a child as defined herein; and (2) a computer-generated, digitally or manually crafted images or graphics of a person who is represented or who is made to appear to be a child as defined herein
The definition of children is broad enough to prevent circumvention of the law
through technological means. The phrase regardless of age obviates the possibility that adults consenting to engage in pornography may agree to be digitally altered to look like minors while engaging in sexual conduct. Moreover, even the depiction of a digitally manufactured child engaged in sexual behavior will not exempt the violator from criminal liability. Any imagery conjured by a perverted mind once digitized and posted is also a violation of the law. A 9775 applies even if the porn trafficked or distributed are cartoon images of children 1
(b) Child pornography" refers to any public or private representation, by
whatever means, of a child engaged in real or simulated explicit sexual activities or any representation of the sexual parts of a child for primarily sexual purposes. (g) "Internet content host" refers to a person who hosts or who proposes to host Internet content in the Philippines. (h) "Internet service provider (ISP)" refers to a person or entity that supplies, or proposes to supply, an Internet carriage service to the public. The liability under the law is not only limited to the cyber pornographer. Criminal liability also attaches to officers or owners of Internet Service Providers, Internet Content Hosts, the Internet Cafes or kiosks. In addition, all operators and business establishments have to know and report to the police within seven days any violation of the act in their premises. Internet Service Providers must reveal, when asked by the police, the identities of the offenderstheir clients trying to access child pornography over the Internet through their servers. Section. 23. Extradition. - The DOJ, in consultation with the Department of Foreign Affairs, shall endeavor to include child pornography among extraditable offenses in future treaties.
