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| In 2008, Proyecto Protect is presenting its work on the fight against child sexual abuse to the media in a series of press conferences in Madrid, Santiago de Compostela, Valencia and Seville, together with its photographic exhibition "Había una vez un niño" (Once upon a time there was a boy), covering the work of Protect in Cambodia. |
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| Also on October 13 and 14, the Antena 3 current affairs program Tal Cual lo Contamos , aired a special report on child sexual abuse in Cambodia. The program included Proyecto Protect's investigative report "Podría ser tu hijo" (I could be your son), and a debate on the issue with Antonia Moreno, presenter and director of the report; Andrés Torres, Chairman of Proyecto Protect; Vicente Garrido, a criminal psychologist; Joan Montané, a victim of sexual abuse; a police officer specialized in child sexual abuse cases and Manuel Marlasa, a reporter for Interviú. |
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| The report shows the children on Cambodia's streets and unseen photographs of Cambodian police arresting sex offenders with the support of the Protect team, which has been working in the country since 2003. |
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| Many disadvantaged children working in the streets fall victim to abuse by foreign sexual offenders. The report includes statements by some of the victims and a journey with Risto Mejide through depressed areas looking for predators on the hunt for children. Interviews describe the impunity and show the arrest of foreign sex offenders. |
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| Antonia Moreno and Risto Mejide support the work of Proyecto Protect. |
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| In June, reporter Antonia Moreno travelled to Cambodia to film "Podría ser tu hijo". |
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| Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in Asia and the majority of its inhabitants live on less than $2 per day. Cambodia's precarious economic situation has also led to the abandonment, sale and kidnapping of many children who ended up as victims of sexual abuse. In this situation, predators act with almost total impunity. |
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| Antonia Moreno, along with a Protect team, takes to the streets of Phnom Penh and interviews possible victims to show Protect's work in investigating, following and reporting suspected sex offenders and providing support to the victims. |
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| Publicist Risto Mejide also travelled to Cambodia to learn first-hand about the work of Protect and give it publicity. Mejide visited foster homes where victims recover and take part in 4 unseen reports, one being an interview with a sex offender in Cambodia's largest prison, where most foreign sex offenders serve their sentences. "I could be your son" is the slogan created by Mejide to publicize Proyecto Protect's work on the fight against child sexual abuse. |
