Section 4Sec./Art. 4

Unlawful or ProhibitedActs. Regardless of the consent of the child, it shall be unlawful for any person to commit the followingactsthrough online or offline means or a combination of both:

(a)To hire, employ, use, persuade, induce, extort, engage, or coerce a child to perform or participate in whatever way in the creation or production of any form of OSAEC and CSAEM;

(b)To produce, direct, manufacture, facilitate, or create any form of CSAEM, or participate in the production, direction, manufacture, facilitation or creation of the same;

(c)To offer, sell, distribute, advertise, promote, export, or import, by any means, any form of CSAEM;

(d)To knowingly publish, transmit and broadcast, by any means, any form of CSAEM;

(e)To permit or influence the child to engage, participate or assist in any form of CSAEM;

(f)To produce, direct, create, hire, employ or pay a facilitator to stream or livestreamactsof child sexual abuse or exploitation

(g)To stream or live-streamactsof, or any form of, child sexual abuse and exploitation;

(h)To recruit, transport, transfer, harbor, provide, or receive a child or to induce or influence the same, for the purpose of violating thisAct;

(i)To introduce or match a child to a foreign national or to any person for the purpose of committing any of the offenses under thisAct;

(j)For film distributors, theaters and ICT services by themselves or in cooperation with other entities, to distribute any form of CSAEM or to facilitate the commission of any of the offenses under thisAct;

(k)To knowingly benefit from, financial or otherwise, the commission of any of the offenses of thisAct;

(l)To provide a venue for the commission of prohibitedactsunder this section such as dens, private rooms, cubicles, cinemas, houses, private homes, or other establishments;

(m)To engage in the luring or grooming of a child:Provided, That grooming taking place offline as a prelude to violations under thisActshall also be penalized;

(n)To sexualize children by presenting them as objects of sexual fantasy, or making them conversational subjects of sexual fantasies, in any online or digital platform;

(o)To engage in pandering as defined under thisAct;

(p)To willfully subscribe, join, donate to, or support an internet site that hosts OSAEC or the streaming or live-streaming of child sexual abuse and exploitation;

(q)To advertise, publish, print, broadcast or distribute, or cause the advertisement, publication, printing, broadcasting or distribution by any means of any brochure, flyer, or any material that promotes OSAEC and child sexual abuse or exploitation

(r)To possess any form of CSAEM:Provided, That possession of three (3) or more CSAEMs isprima facieevidence of the intent to sell, distribute, publish or broadcast;

(s)To willfully access any form of CSAEM; and

(t)To conspire to commit any of the prohibitedactsstated in this section:

Provided, That the investigation or prosecution of offenses under thisActshall be without prejudice to appropriate investigation and prosecution mechanisms underRepublic Act No. 9208, otherwise known as the "Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003,"as amended, and other related laws.