Monday, October 27, 2008
Sun Star Cebu
POLICE arrested a 36-year-old computer engineer amid allegations he sexually abused several boys from Barangay Luz, Cebu City, most of them younger than 14.
A team from the Investigation Detective Management Branch (IDMB) of the Cebu City Police Office arrested the engineer, codenamed “Boy George”, in an entrapment in Barangay Lahug at 1 p.m. yesterday.
SPO1 Filomeno Mendaros, who led the team, requested that the name of the suspect be withheld, pending a follow-up operation against the suspect’s alleged cohort.
Police are also verifying reports that the suspect distributes child pornography on the Internet.
Senior Insp. George Ylanan, IDMB chief, told reporters that four boys have accused the engineer of molesting them and taking video footage or photographs during the assault.
There were also instances when the minors were allegedly made to perform sexual acts or pose naked in front of a camera, Ylanan said. These videos or photographs were then circulated through the Internet.
Reporters tried to get the engineer’s comment on the allegations, but the latter refused. He is detained at the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) stockade.
Ylanan said the suspect denied the allegations, when he was earlier asked about them by the police.
The minors, however, pointed to the engineer as the culprit.
Ylanan said the IDMB set up the entrapment after Barangay Luz Captain Nida Cabrera coordinated with his office about the alleged activities of the suspect.
The operatives started working on the case last Saturday and arranged for the entrapment after the suspect allegedly
contacted one of the boys, in a chat session, to meet him yesterday.
SPO1 Mendaros, in a separate interview, said the boys were drawn to the suspect after he gave them P1,000 or P500 cash.
The suspect also reportedly bought the victims shoes or cellular phones.
One complainant, 16, claimed that the man started molesting him when he was only 11.
Ylanan said the engineer will be charged with violating Republic Act 9208 or the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003, “for meeting with a minor with intent of a sexual act.”
A separate complaint for allegedly violating Republic Act 7610 or the Anti-Child Abuse Law will also be filed, in behalf of the four boys.
Cebu City Councilor Gerardo Carillo instructed social workers to assist the minors in coping with any trauma they may have suffered after being used in an online pornography business.
The City’s Department of Social Welfare Services was also asked to help them go back to their respective communities and live as normally as possible after their ordeal.
“We were told that aside from being used in the online pornography activities, the children were also made to take illegal drugs and they are used to it. Our main concern here are the children, na maulian ni sila (they will recover),” Carillo told Sun.Star Cebu.
“At a very young age, they have been exposed to illegal drugs, pornography and other illegal activities. We will have to provide assistance so they can go back to their families and live normal lives,” he continued. (JTG/With LCR
"Boy George" (Pedophile) falls in entrapment
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