Negros Occidental school, police and church officials yesterday urged parents to keep a close watch on their children's activities because of reports that cellular phone videos of students engaging in sex are proliferating in the province.

Senior Supt. Pedro Merced, Bacolod police chief, told the DAILY STAR that students who allow videos to be taken of them while engaged in sex may be on drugs, because these acts do not appear to be the those of normal people.

Parents have a greater responsibility to keep a close watch on the activities of their children and instill the proper values in them, he said.

Merced said he will meet with school officials to discuss how such activities can be curbed.

A mother has raised concern over high school students engaged in sexual acts recorded through their cellular phone video cameras, RGMA Super Radyo reported yesterday.

The mother, whose name was withheld, said the students engage in such acts inside an empty classroom in a Bacolod school.

In one video the mother said she found on the cellular phone of her daughter, eight to nine high school girls were seen performing sexual acts together, the report said.

The females in the video were between 14 and 16 years old and appeared to be having fun, the station also reported. It added that there were other reported cellular phone videos taken of such activities.

The mother was reportedly concerned that such activity could happen within school premises.

Another cellular phone video circulating is of two alleged students having sex on the steps of an unidentified school, with the male boasting about the size of his sex organ. Merced said it appeared that a third party was involved, taking the video.

Eva Belicena, Negros Occidental schools superintendent, yesterday urged parents to keep a close watch on their children's after class activities and about the subject matters they view on the Internet.

The Internet gives students easy access to pornographic and sexually explicit material, she told the DAILY STAR.

She said students allowed to surf the Internet in their bedrooms until the wee hours of the morning have the opportunity to access such material.

Belicena said she is advising parents to put the computers of their children in areas of the house where they cannot surf in secret for pornographic materials. They should also limit the use of cellular phones by students, she added.

Spiritual values of the young should also be strengthened, both Belicena and Msgr. Vuctorinio Rivas, vicar general of the Diocese of Bacolod, said.

Rivas stressed that young must be made to understand that it is morally wrong to have sex until one is married.*CPG

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