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Honeypot bar raided, under investigation
Friday, May 20
Honeypot bar, a bar situated on the non-walkingstreet section of Fields Avenue, had been raided by a CIDG operation from Manila last night.
At least 46 female workers and 3 foreign staff including one Ray Kelly, the alleged owner, were brought to Camp Crame in Quezon City for investigation.
The mother of one of the female staff working at the bar allegedly filed a complaint to Camp Crame for a yet unclear reason. Why this has resulted in the raid of the entire bar is still unknown.
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Police free 43 girls from sex den in Angeles City
By Karen Boncocan
INQUIRER.net 2:49 pm | Friday, May 20th, 2011 0ShareNew
MANILA, Philippines – Authorities rescued 42 alleged sex workers, including a 17-year-old girl, at a night club in Angeles City, Pampanga Thursday night, a police official said Friday.
Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) director Chief Superintendent Samuel Pagdilao Jr. said that the sex workers were rescued after the CIDG Women and Children Protection Division (WCPD), and the CIDG Task Force “Maverick”, swooped down on the Sweet Girl Honey Pot night club along Fields Avenue in Balibago, Angeles City, Pampanga at around 9:30 p.m.
Citing a report from Superintendent Emma Libunao who led the team in the raid, Pagdilao said that three foreigners, Australian nationals Barry Burston, 69, and Raymond Anderson, 57, and Michael Watt, 59, from New Zealand, were arrested for allegedly operating the club. Also nabbed were two ‘floor directors’ Judith Pajaron, 38, and Rossana Almeira, 22. The registered owner of the club, a certain Marites Relos, was not in the club during the raid.
Pagdilao said all those arrested during the raid will face charges for violating R.A. 9208 or the Trafficking in Person Act.
Still citing Libunao’s report, the CIDG director stated that the raid was conducted after they received a complaint from Ledilla Cortez on March 16. In her complaint, Cortez said that her 17-year-old missing niece was being held in the night club.
Her niece had been missing for a week when she filed the complaint, said Cortez. She told authorities that she received a text message from her niece, asking to be rescued, on May 14.
Pagdilao said that the victim told CIDG investigators that she was forced to stay, and work in the club because she owed the owner money for the club’s ‘uniform.’
Libunao said that the women were recruited from as far as Biliran, Leyte and Catarman, Samar.
Tags: Crime , Police , prostitution , White Slavery
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TWO Australians and a New Zealander have been arrested after a raid on a suspected brothel as the Philippines stepped up a campaign against trafficking of women and children for sex, police say.
Investigators said they have yet to establish whether detained Australians Barry Burston, 69, and Raymond Anderson, 57, and Michael Watt, 59, from New Zealand, owned, operated or were customers at the suspected brothel.
Police raided the night club in the northern city of Angeles late yesterday and found 42 alleged sex workers, including a 17-year-old girl that had earlier been reported missing by an aunt, chief investigator Samuel Pagdilao said today.
"They (detained suspects) are being investigated by our women and children's protection section. We should be filing cases against them shortly," said Chief Superintendent Pagdilao, head of the police criminal investigation division.
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Philippines brothel raid: Aussies arrested
May 20, 2011 - 5:54PM
Two Australians and a New Zealander have been arrested after a raid on a suspected brothel as the Philippines stepped up a campaign against trafficking of women and children for sex, police say.
Investigators said they have yet to establish whether detained Australians Barry Burston, 69, and Raymond Anderson, 57, and Michael Watt, 59, from New Zealand, owned, operated or were customers at the suspected brothel.
Police raided the night club in the northern city of Angeles late on Thursday and found 42 alleged sex workers, including a 17-year-old girl that had earlier been reported missing by an aunt, chief investigator Samuel Pagdilao said on Friday.
"They (detained suspects) are being investigated by our women and children's protection section. We should be filing cases against them shortly," said Chief Superintendent Pagdilao, head of the police criminal investigation division.
Prostitution is illegal in the Philippines, Asia's Roman Catholic outpost, but the sex trade flourishes openly in many urban areas including Manila and Angeles, which until 1992 had hosted a US military base.
Police said they raided the Angeles club after an aunt alleged the 17-year-old girl was being held against her will and was being forced by one of the women suspects to serve a customer looking for paid sex.
The girl had left home a week earlier to look for a job but later contacted the aunt by phone alleging one of the women suspects was forcing her to sell sex to pay for her club uniform, Pagdilao said.
President Benigno Aquino has been stepping up efforts to curb human trafficking, which the US State Department said remains a serious problem in the impoverished former American colony.
Earlier this month, a lower court in the south sentenced two Swedish men to life in prison after their arrest in 2009 for operating a cybersex shop where 17 adult Filipinas performed naked on web cameras for paying internet clients.
Trafficking in people aged below 18 is punishableby life in prison, while trafficking in adults is punishable by up to 20 years in jail under a 2003 Philippine law.
Paying a trafficked person for sex is punishable by community service at the first offence, with a year-long prison term for repeat offenders.
