The story of ETA begins in a cramped university lecture hall in Manila in 2020. A group of social‑work students, led by then‑graduate student , were conducting a research project on “digital vulnerabilities among adolescents.” Their findings—harrowing testimonies of teenagers coerced into live‑streaming sexual content for profit—prompted a night‑long brainstorming session. The students realized that the existing legal and social safety nets were fragmented, often failing to protect victims or prosecute perpetrators.
This includes a range of abuses from sexual harassment and assault to being forced into prostitution. The digital age has also seen an increase in online sexual exploitation, with the distribution of child sexual abuse materials being a grim reality. Exploited Teens Asia