{"id":11411,"date":"2019-11-23T04:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T19:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/22\/a-12-year-old-girl-online-sexual-exploitation-cost-of-australia-lax-financial-rules"},"modified":"2019-11-23T21:49:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T12:49:37","slug":"a-12-year-old-girl-online-sexual-exploitation-and-lax-financial-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11411","title":{"rendered":"Westpac scandal: a 12-year-old girl, online sexual exploitation and lax financial rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Westpac bank scandal has brought the role of financial institutions in enabling child sexual abuse into sharp relief<\/p>\n<p>On 25 October plainclothes police barged through the red door of a family home in a dense neighbourhood in Rizal, a province two hours away from Manila.<\/p>\n<p>There they arrested a mother who was allegedly sexually exploiting her own 12-year-old daughter. The 45-year-old woman was clutching her phone. Police took it and then handcuffed her.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/22\/a-12-year-old-girl-online-sexual-exploitation-cost-of-australia-lax-financial-rules\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Westpac bank scandal has brought the role of financial institutions in enabling child sexual abuse into sharp reliefOn 25 October plainclothes police barged through the red door of a family home in a dense neighbourhood in Rizal, a province two hou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,291,6,374,956,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-banking","category-business","category-crime-australia","category-online-abuse","category-philippines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11411"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11430,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11411\/revisions\/11430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}