In the dead of night in Manila, police officers track down criminals responsible for delivering online child abuse to a growing number Australian customers. ‘A lot of the Philippines population speak English quite well which makes it easy for the offenders to communicate and to text and negotiate’, says Detective Senior Constable Natalie Roesler. One Australian man was recently jailed for 15 years for child sex offences over the internet; his youngest victim was just three years old. Often, parents are involved in arranging the abuse. ‘Rescue operations are often very stressful for survivors, especially very young survivors who may not understand right away why they are being separated from their parents’, says Jessa Lazarte, a social worker with International Justice Mission. A mother who facilitated her children’s abuse for money agrees to be interviewed. ‘You have not been there, what we’ve been through to stay alive. Maybe when you’re in my situation, you would understand me’, she says. She faces life in prison for the offences.