I found this article at http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Soc/soc.culture.filipino/2009-04/msg00154.html.  It states that Shay Cullen wrote it, and based on the style, it appears that it is Shay Cullen's work.  Therefore, I add this article along with my own comments in this font.  The original font will be the article by Shay Cullen.

Philippine Sex Tourism and Abortion



By: Fr. Shay Cullen



hen the social workers, police, and the mother of two missing

children, 13 and 14 year-olds, all from Limay, Bataan arrived in

Alaminos, Father Shay Cullen, shows the International Person of the

year Award for 2008 he received for his work at PREDAN. Pangasinan

last December 2008, they expected the local police to have a squad

ready to raid the �Trappers� sex bar and rescue the missing minors who

had been trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation. Instead, the

club was closed and the children were gone. After hours of persuasion,

the Alaminos police miraculously found the children at a �bus stop�

and they were then given to the Preda home for trafficked girls.

Apparently, the text starts out missing some.  Oh, well....  But isn't it great that two missing children are shown Shay Cullen's award?  I'll bet that made them real happy!  Oh, yes, and please note that Preda has another name:  "home for trafficked girls".  So the missing girls are picked up at a bus stop.  How horridly sexual is that?  And the police, shame be all over them for not finding the girls at the "Trappers" sex bar.  "SEX BAR"?  Wow, do they have a license for that?  The minors had been trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation, according to the above.  So where were their guards (or pimps, whatever you'd like to call them) when the girls were picked up AT A BUS STOP?



The traffickers, pimps and club operators seemingly have impunity from

the law. Even the good Mayor, a former congressman apparently is

unable to control the sex Mafia. Most sex bars, operate with a mayor's

license. The people of Alaminos ought to come to the support of the

mayor in his campaign to cancel the licenses and free the women and

children.

Certainly they seem to, as Shay Cullen likes to explain to the whole world.  Perhaps because he never files charges against the pimps and traffickers, it encourages such sex tours that Shay Cullen has all the information about.  After all, here Shay Cullen claims that the good Mayor is unable to control the sex mafia, but also issues licenses to said sex bars.  Holy sex bar, Batman!  Did Shay Cullen just implicate the "good Mayor" of dealing in sex bars and the sex mafia?



In Malaysia Philippine Embassy personnel rescued several 13 and 14

years old children, trafficked into commercial sex clubs there. With

the help of Visayan Forum, a children's rights organization, they were

brought back to the Philippines. One, Maryanne, was referred to the

Preda Children's Home where she recovered and gave birth to twins.

They are the love of her life now despite how she became pregnant. The

other girls dote on them and never want to return to prostitution but

want to marry in the future and have a family. Had Maryanne not been

rescued, she would have been dragged screaming to an abortion clinic

and the babies forcibly aborted.

Occasionally, Shay Cullen claims to predict what was about to transpire.  I wonder where he keeps his crystal ball?  After all, he did say "screaming" didn't he?



The sexual exploitation of children in Philippine tourism is found on

both the national and international fronts. Thousands of European,

North American and Australian sex tourists make the Philippines a

destination and create a demand for commercially-sexually exploited

children (CSEC). Internal trafficking is the most common form of child

sexual exploitation in Philippine tourism. Thousands of Filipino sex

tourists abuse some of the estimated 80,000 children under the age of

18. They are made available in sex bars or through pimps. Even 11

year- olds can be bought by arrangement.

The question I have here is do the tourists create the demand, or does Shay Cullen create the illusion that there is a demand by statements such as the mayors issue permits and cannot control the trade, or that authorities have little interest in combatting the problem?  If Shay Cullen and his huge staff at Preda can file complaints for rape against children (such as against my son and the son of a housemaid), why can they not file complaints for rape against adults, and write about the cases that are IN COURT or have a FINAL DECISION?  When was the last time that Shay Cullen wrote about a conviction?  Let's see, I think I remember some time in the late 1990s, where he was writing that his "Landmark Case" was being challenged by 47 priests who petitioned the court to look at evidence they had that the convict might not have been guilty.  Is there any other case that he has supported that has gotten a conviction since that time?  I have heard of none to my recollection.  Email me if you know of one (or more).



Most bars, clubs, beer houses and karaoke bars are fronts for

prostitution. Alongside, adult prostitutes, minors are also employed.

However, their documents are fake and rarely verified by officials. It

is a growing business with an estimated 1.2 million single male

tourist arrivals every year in the Philippines. How many of those

arrivals seek out minors for sex is not known since it is secret

underground-business worth millions of dollars.

If Shay Cullen has proof of such libelous statements, why has he not had the places closed down?  Prostitution is illegal in the Philippines, as I understand it, so it should be a simple matter to catch the bars, etc. in the act, should it not?



Young Filipina bargirls pose on stage in front of customers and the

camera at a Philippine nightspotThe profits from tourism, sexual or

otherwise, seems to be of greater importance to the officials and

businesses than is the protection of children and the dignity of

Filipinos. With the economic recession, more and more children will be

dropping out of school and will enter the work force as impoverished

families try to survive.

And what does Shay Cullen and Preda do as counterpoint - show allegedly victimized children in plays that retell over and over again their pain and suffering to audiences worldwide?  Who is victimizing who?  Is Shay Cullen and Preda better because they use a staged play, whereas the bars let the women get up and dance for money?  Frankly, as I see it, BOTH approaches are morally wrong, but there is no law against either act.  Bar owners can legally pay dancers and Preda can stage plays purporting sexual and criminal behavior.



Besides the lifelong physical and mental damage to the minors, there

is the ever present danger of sexually transmitted diseases like HIV-

AIDS. In tandem with the sex industry, drug trafficking and

distribution is the other side of the sex tourist coin and the

exploited children are vulnerable to addiction at an early age.



Worst of all is the illegal and dangerous abortions that are arranged

with back-street abortion clinics. This is the most heinous of crimes

as they are usually late-term abortions from the teenage victims who

conceal the pregnancy from the sex bar operators as long as they can

for fear of punishment and forced abortion. They are dragged to the

clinics and forced to undergo an abortion. These abortion clinics are

well known to the pimps and club operators and even police.

If Shay Cullen and Preda are aware of these horrendous acts against young women, why don't they do something about it rather than publicise the dastardly deeds to the world?  Shay Cullen implies, as I read it, that he is aware of some of the clinics involved, yet he never once mentions that he has taken any steps to bring the doctors or whomever to justice.



The lack of moral outrage by the church, local government and citizens

against the sex industry and its abortion clinics is shocking in

itself. When was the last national rally or church-sponsored campaign

against it? There are sex bars in every town and parish. When will the

clergy speak out against the exploitation? This silence, �see nothing,

do nothing�, is tantamount to hypocritical consent.

The moral outrage should be against Shay Cullen for glorifying the gluttony he seems to witness, yet never once writing about convictions and/or filings against perverts.  Indeed, why is it that he can name the victims, yet NOT name the victimizers?  The moral outrage should be against Shay Cullen and his staff for falsely accusing others without a shred of proof, for defaming people in writing and speeches held, and for bilking money out of people - money that is used to keep true decisions of authorities from being released, or having obviously tainted decisions released.