Category Archive for : ‘PHILIPPINES’

Huffingtonpost.com
4/7/14
Philippine police said Monday they have detained a vacationing Italian diplomat and filedcomplaints of human trafficking and child abuse after he was allegedly found in the company ofthree underage boys at a resort.  Catherine Scerri of Bahay Tuluyan said she and hercolleagues saw the foreigner at the resort with three young children aged 9 to 12 clearly notrelated to him. 
(Manila, Philippines)

Alex Bartolome was convicted of sexually molesting his daughter more than 100 times between 1993 and 1995.  His daughter who was 14 years old when the abuse began kept it to herself because he threatened to kill her.  She eventually told her mother who then went to the authorities.  Bartolome was executed Tuesday.