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The National Bureau of Investigation will track down the calls made by the high profile New Bilibid Prison inmates, a report from GMA’s “24-Oras” program said Wednesday. According to the report, the NBI will do this to identify who the inmates were calling outside the prison in hopes of discovering their other illegal activities. The Bureau will do this by examining the mobile phones they confiscated during a massive prison raid involving over a hundred agents last Monday. Aside from the mobile phones, luxury items such as appliances, watches, shoes and even sex toys were discovered in “kubols” during the raid. There were also stacks of cash worth at least P2 million and illegal drugs seized from the convicts. Even with the seizure, some NBI officials said the raid was tipped off to the convicts since they were expecting more illegal items. Still, some confiscated items such as vaults from high profile inmate Herbert “Ampang” Colangco have yet to be opened and may provide more information to illegal activities in NBP. There are also notebooks and log books that have Chinese characters with corresponding amounts of cash written beside the names.  Last Monday, the Justice Department and the NBI conducted a raid on the NBP and discovered luxurious “kubols” inside the prison’s maximum security compound. Twenty high profile convicts were transferred to an undisclosed holding facility following the raid where they will stay until the kubols have been dismantled. —Andrei Medina/NB, GMA News

Pope Francis has named a Filipino as one of the new members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, the Vatican said Wednesday. Vatican Radio said Dr. Gabriel Dy-Liacco is one of the new members chosen from different parts of the world, to have a full representation of diverse cultures. The pontifical commission seeks to safeguard the welfare of minors, including improving sex abuse prevention and better care for victims.   Its next plenary session is scheduled in the Vatican from Feb. 6 to 8, 2015. Vatican Radio, citing information from the Holy See Press Office, described Dy-Liacco as an adolescent psychotherapist and pastoral counselor for various mental health concerns “including of individuals, couples, families and groups, including victims and perpetrators of abuse.”  Commission members It said the commission is headed by Boston Archbishop Cardinal Seán O’Malley (United States). O’Malley is a member of the Council of Cardinals which advises the Pope. Msgr. Robert Oliver (United States) serves as the Secretary of the Commission. He served many years in child protection work for the Archdiocese of Boston, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith as the Promoter of Justice. Other members are:  Rev. Luis Manuel Ali Herrera (Colombia), Director of the Department of Psychology, professor of pastoral psychology in the Conciliar Seminary of the Archdiocese of Bogotá, and as a parish priest. Dr. Catherine Bonnet (France), a child psychiatrist, psychotherapist, researcher, and author on child sexual abuse and perinatal violence Read More …

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Drugs, cash, appliances found in drug lords’ den inside NBP. Members of the PNP Special Action Force haul away three safes seized from inside a kubol of a drug lord inside the New Bilibid Prison maximum compound in Muntinlupa City on Monday, December 15. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, along with a company of fully-armed SAF, made a surprise inspection of the jail facility. John Consulta The surprise inspection at the New Bilibid Prisons on Monday was meant to help the government’s cause against the “significant” contribution of convicted and incarcerated drug traffickers to the trade of narcotics at large. “Ang greater reason [why we did this] is that para ma-completely incapacitate sila from further transacting sa drugs,” De Lima said in an interview over GMA News TV’s Baltanghali. “[A] significant portion ng narcotics industry sa Philippines ay nate-trace sa mga inmates sa loob,” she added. De Lima led the surprise inspection, conducted with at least 100 agents from the National Bureau of Investigation, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, and the Philippine National Police.  The operation was about two to three months in the making, she said. Surprising finds Authorities found kilos of shabu and other drug paraphernalia during the raid, along with a list of what authorities believe to be drug transactions that happened within prison. But the inspection further yielded surprising finds, including items and facilities that are said to be used only in luxury condominiums. In his reports, GMA News’ John Consulta said that among the items discovered Read More …