Mother arrested for ‘pimping’ daughter to Aussie boyfriend
Police arrested a woman for allegedly letting her Australian boyfriend sexually abuse her 14-year-old daughter in a subdivision in Bogo City.
Stephen John Baker, 41, was arrested in his house while his live-in partner who went to the police station to get her daughter was arrested.
The victim, a grade school pupil in the neighboring town of Medellin, had run away from home.
Charges of rape and violation of the anti-human trafficking law and anti-child abuse law will be filed against the mother and Baker tomorrow, said police.
The teenage girl said the Australian and her mother have been living together for two years.
The girl narrated to a female police officer that last Wednesday, while she was washing her clothes, her mother told her to take a bath and go to her room.
PO3 Glecilda Claro said the child described this as the first time the Australian sexually abused her.
But before that, her mother made her watch pornographic videos as “part of her training.”
The girl said they used to live with her maternal grandparents but transferred to the foreigner’s house in Bogo City early this month.
JUST A GAME
“The girl said she resisted when the foreigner tried to rape her. The man told her mother about it. The mother then approached her and asked the child to agree to have sex with the foreigner, saying everything was just a game,” PO3 Claro said.
Last Thursday, the teenager decided to go to Daanbantayan where her paternal grandparents live and tell them about her ordeal.
She was turned over to the Bogo City Women and Children’s Protection Desk (WCPD) on Thursday afternoon.
When her mother came to the police station to fetch the girl, she was placed under arrest, said Senior Insp. Ildefonso Miranda Jr., deputy chief of Bogo City.
The girl was brought to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) in Cebu City for medical examination while the police are further checking the background of the Australian partner.
Miranda told Cebu Daily News, police suspect the mother has been pimping other children to foreigners .
He said they are checking if other foreigners are involved in the enterprise.
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