While it is true that the photographs have been taken down from several popular online platforms, the original perpetrators remain at large. For Martha, though, the case is closed. She says, “I’m not going to give anybody the power to do that to me (again)…Life has moved on. (The issue) is closed; very (much) closed.” Child pornography pays the bills in a small town in Cebu: The case of Cordova Keywords: child pornography; exploitation of minors; taking video without consent; emotional harm; sexual harm; harm to reputation; trauma; poverty; social networks; online chats; dating websites; webcam; video; Internet café; abuser is known; family involvement; pornography dens; foreign clients; multiple victims; law enforcement; anonymity; NGO; state intervention The Story and the Violence The small town of Cordova in the Philippines has a population of less than 54,000 people, of which nearly 15% live in poverty. In the last few years, the town has come to be known as the ‘cyber pornography capital’ of the country, following several raids in which minor children being exploited for the purposes of cyber pornography were rescued by NGOs and law enforcement agencies. But the problem of child pornography isn’t unique to Cordova, and this particular exploitation of minors is prevalent throughout the Philippines. Child pornography takes place in one of three types of operations: family-run (involving parents or other relatives of the child), individual (where the transaction is negotiated by the minor and generally takes place in an Internet cafe or a private residence), and ‘dens’ (more organised, larger-scale operations involving the trafficking of children). Customers of child pornography are oftentimes overseas foreigners who pay money to operators via money transfer companies. They engage in online sex shows, where they interact with and direct the children as they perform sex acts. These 30 <End Violence: Women’s Rights and Safety Online>