Woman facing trafficking charge

Izobelle T. Pulgo, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 01/30/2017

A SUSPECTED human trafficker is now facing trial after allegedly “pimping” girls to foreign costumers at rates ranging from P2,500 to P3,000. Flora Mae Sususco, 23, is facing a qualified trafficking in person charge before the Regional…

The secret life of Liezyl Margallo

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 01/29/2017

The 23-year-old woman, tagged as “savage” by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) for her alleged gruesome abuses against many children in Mindanao was “sweet and kind” when she lived the life of a fugitive for two…

Provincial Capitol lauds arrest of child trafficker

Izobelle T. Pulgo 01/27/2017

The recent arrest of Liezyl Margallo, the alleged human trafficker whose monstrosity appeared to have no bounds, highlights the brutal realities of human trafficking in the Philippines. But Cebu Vice Governor Agnes Magpale, a top advocate for…

Polish national arrested for human trafficking

Nestle L. Semilla 01/10/2017

A 59-year-old Polish man was arrested by the police just before attempting to leave from the Hagnaya Port in San Remigio. Sen. Insp. Audie Pelayo of the San Remigio Municipal Police Station arrested Miroslaw Roman Nieczaja, 59,…

Cleared

Editorial 11/11/2016

The dismissal of the trafficking charges filed against an American couple who supposedly ran an orphanage without the proper documents may be an eye-opener in terms of how the authorities deal with foreigners who come into contact…

I have a voice

Sofia Aliño Logarta 11/02/2016

I Have a Voice: Trafficked Women — In Their Own Words” reveals to us the life stories of young women who all experienced various forms of violence in their lives. They have undergone healing. We are grateful…

Couple’s son, ex-staffer refute trafficking raps

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 10/25/2016

A former staffer of an orphanage run by an American couple who got arrested by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in Tagbilaran City, Bohol province said the children were all accounted for. Pete Magqui,…

RESCUED

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Leo Udtohan 10/23/2016

Tagbilaran City — Thirty-eight young persons, most of them minors from Cebu, who are as young as four years old, were rescued from an illegal orphanage ran by an American and his Filipina-American wife in Tagbilaran City.…

Two women convicted for trafficking

Izobelle T. Pulgo 10/13/2016

TWO women who were caught delivering minors to foreigners were sentenced to 15 years in prison after being convicted by the court on charges of attempted trafficking last Oct. 10. In a press statement released by the…

Spa operators likely to face raps

Michaela Jaycel L. Dolores 10/12/2016

The National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI-7) will likely file charges today for violation of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act against the operators of Beah’s Spa and Massage on F. Ramos Street, Barangay Cogon-Ramos, Cebu…

SEVEN KIDS RESCUED

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Nestle L. Semilla, Norman V. Mendoza 09/08/2016

Seven children have fallen victims to cyberpornography. And it happened in Cordova town. Again. Police operatives yesterday arrested a couple who allegedly exposed their children to cyberpornography in Barangay Ibabao of the seaside town of Cordova on…

Gains, new online threat cited

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 07/29/2016

As the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) cited in-roads in the fight against human trafficking with the decrease in the availability of children for commercial sex in Metro Cebu, it also acknowledged the emergence of other forms…

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