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An 18-month-old girl was among the children allegedly sexually abused by an Australian man arrested in the Philippines last month, government investigators said Monday. Law enforcement officials are now hunting people overseas who apparently paid 51-year-old Gerard Peter Scully for the footage of the children being sexually abused, Manila’s National Bureau of Investigation said. “It was a video shown on the Internet, (of him) allegedly torturing the child physically and sexually,” NBI regional chief Angelito Magno said, referring to the young girl. Magno, whose unit originally arrested Scully on February 20 in the southern Philippines, said the infant’s parents apparently knew about the abuse, adding that the government’s Social Welfare Office was now caring for the child and her parents. He declined to give more information on the infant. Scully fled from Australia to the Philippines to escape fraud charges in 2011. The NBI has said he set up his cybersex operations in the impoverished southern Philippines, using offers of food and money to lure children into having sex with him and then selling the footage on the Internet. He faces human trafficking charges and could get life in jail if convicted. He is also being investigated for the suspected murder of a girl of about 12 years, whom he allegedly strangled and then buried under his rented house, said Basset Sarit, the executive officer of the NBI’s anti-human trafficking unit. Two other girls that he allegedly abused last year have said that they were forced by Scully to dig Read More …

Jolo Revilla in stable condition after gun accident. Cavite Vice Governor Jolo Revilla lies in the Intensive Care Unit of the Asian Hospital and Medical Center in Muntinlupa City on Monday, March 2. The son of detained Senator Ramon Bong Revilla Jr., Jolo accidentally shot himself on the upper right chest while reportedly cleaning a pistol on Saturday, February 28. Photo courtesy of Office of Sen. Bong Revilla The camp of Cavite Vice Gov. Jolo Revilla on Monday countered allegations that the local official tried to take his own life due to pressing personal and family problems. Lawyer Raymond Fortun, a spokesman for Revilla, denied that the vice governor tried to take his life because of his father Sen. Ramon Revilla Jr.’s detention on plunder charges. Fortun vouched for Revilla’s emotional strength to face the family’s issues.  He said Revilla could have made sure that he died from his gunshot wound. “Kung ang isang tao ay mayroon talagang intensyon na saktan ang sarili niya, ang gagawin po niya ay itututok yung baril mismo sa katawan niya e at yung anggulo po nito ay yung parte ng katawan na sabihin na natin na hindi mo na mararamdaman kasi patay ka na,” Fortun said on “24 Oras.” Another insinuation had Revilla trying to commit suicide due to problems with girlfriend, actress Jodi Sta. Maria, something that Fortun also denied. “Last Saturday evening all the way to the entire morning of Sunday nandun po si Ms. Jodi Sta. Maria at nagbabantay sa kanya. Read More …

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Without a doubt, the Mamasapano tragedy must lead to a reexamination of the laws, rules, guidelines that are still being worked out as part of the peace agreement with the MILF. But those pushing for all-out war with the rebels keep missing a key point: All- out war doesn’t work. It never has. It never will. Ferdinand Marcos tried it 40 year ago, and the Moro movement simply grew stronger, forcing the dictator to sign a peace agreement that eventually fell apart. Believing that wiping out the MILF would be as easy as mowing down the bad guys in his movies, Erap gave it a shot during his disastrous administration. The military did take over Camp Abubakar and Erap and his allies, in a supreme example of political cluelessness, brought lechon and beer to the camp to celebrate. But 15 years later, the MILF is still there, looking even stronger. There’s another point the warmongers keep ignoring: The Moros are rebelling because their people have been bullied, abused, robbed and humiliated for decades. We keep forgetting that. The fact that key MILF leaders are talking peace suggests there’s a meaningful segment of the Moro movement that really wants to end the war. Are all of them for peace? Clearly not, for many reasons. Which is why the peace process is bound to be complicated going forward and both sides must proceed with caution, seeking ways to strengthen the hand of leaders, on both sides who genuinely want peace. But abandoning Read More …