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Daughter of drug agent seized, raped
Topic Started: Jul 20 2009, 04:26 AM (859 Views)
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Daughter of drug agent seized, raped

This is war, Arroyo says when told of attack

By Nikko Dizon
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:07:00 07/20/2009

Filed Under: Illegal drugs, shabu, Organized Crime


Close this MANILA, Philippines—A young daughter of a government agent involved in fighting drug syndicates was abducted at the weekend and later found drugged and sexually abused in a heinous attack that provoked Malacanang to warn late Sunday night: “This is now a war on drugs.”

The girl, a minor, is “still in shock” and is confined in a hospital, a top government official told the Philippine Daily Inquirer, asking not to be identified because the family had asked him not to talk about the matter with the media.

Press Secretary Cerge Remonde said in a statement that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who appointed herself in January the country’s “anti-drug czar,” had been told of the attack.

“The President has just been informed … We will mobilize all forces to help the family involved,” Remonde said.

Before Malacañang issued its statement, law enforcers said they were looking at a certain drug syndicate supposedly with political connections as the possible perpetrator of the attack.

The Inquirer decided not to identify the agent or the office where he works to protect the family’s identity and the girl’s interest.

A Philippine law on violence against women and children prohibits the publication of any identifying information about the victim or a family member without the family’s consent.

The tragedy that befell the family appears to show how audacious drug syndicates have become in the Philippines, which ranks fifth in the world in terms of shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) seizures in the last 10 years.

Officials have put the value of the illegal drugs trade in the country at a high estimate of P300 billion and a low estimate of P150 billion a year.

The girl’s tragedy also strikes a grim parallel to what has happened in other countries where drug cartels and gangs have turned drug trafficking into a frightful, flourishing business.

In Mexico alone, nearly 10,000 drug traffickers, state agents and civilians have been killed in drug war-related incidents since 2007, the Los Angeles Times has reported. Some victims were beheaded.

‘This is narco-politics’

“Without discounting other suspects, I think this is the handiwork of a drug syndicate which was the subject of a recent crackdown … just by assessing previous incidents following the bust,” the top official told the Inquirer.

He described the syndicate as “well-connected politically.”

“This involves narco-politics. May kalaliman ito (This goes deep) assuming the angle we are pursuing is right. But we’re bent on considering that angle,” the official said.

Another theory is “baka napag tripan ng barkada (a gang might have taken a fancy to the girl) but that is speculative,” an Inquirer source said.

Sketchy reports indicated that the girl went missing on Saturday night. She was recovered at around 6 a.m. Sunday near a military facility in Luzon, the official said.

There had also been a previous, but failed, attempt to abduct the young girl, the official said.

Both the rich and poor

Illegal drugs have become an insidious, pervasive menace in the Philippines, sucking into their vortex both the rich and the poor.

Of the country’s 3.4 million drug users, 1.8 million are regular users while 1.6 million are occasional users, law enforcers said.

The 2009 World Drug Report released by the United Nations recently said the Philippines was fifth after China, the United States, Thailand and Taiwan in terms of shabu seizures from 1998 to 2007.

“The Philippines remains a significant source of high potency crystalline methamphetamine used both domestically and exported to locations in East and Southeast Asia and Oceania,” the report said.

It said that while many countries manufactured shabu, China, Burma (Myanmar) and the Philippines accounted for most of the production.

Foreign chemists

The report noted that the illegal drug was often manufactured in industrial-size laboratories operated by transnational organized crime syndicates and staffed by foreign chemists.

The UN report said that in 2007, a notable increase in the seizure of methamphetamine-related manufacturing facilities in the Philippines was reported with nine significant laboratories and 13 chemical warehouses seized. This rose to 10 laboratories in 2008.

The report identified interregional trafficking routes as being from Burma to Bangladesh and India; from Hong Kong, China, to Australia, Indonesia, Japan and New Zealand; from the Philippines to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States; and from East and Southeast Asia to Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

The report said that global markets for cocaine, opiates and cannabis were steady or in decline, while the production and use of synthetic drugs was increasing in the developing world.

Cannabis or marijuana remained the most widely used drug around the world, although estimates were less precise. With a report from Inquirer Research

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadl...nt-seized-raped


If the politician behind here is known, then I suggest that this agent talk to his peers who knows SNIPING,

GET EVEN. :thumb:

His battalion of bodyguards will not be enough to protect him. Find a way.

Good luck! :armywink:
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If this politician allegedly involved is one of those enjoying impunity anointed upon him by the regime, we can break it even by putting this regime into history through the ballot.
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This news was said to be "kuryente" due to media sensationalism. Just to put a closure

Police: No abduction, no rape of anti-drug agent’s daughter
07/21/2009 | 08:12 AM

Was she really abducted and raped, or did the daughter of an anti-drug operative just have a drinking spree with friends last weekend?

The supposed abduction drew outrage Monday from anti-narcotics and other public officials, but the Cordillera Autonomous Region police, citing testimonies by the girl’s acquaintances, said Tuesday the girl was neither abducted nor raped.

"If we base [sa] testimony ng kasama na teenager, walang abduction, walang rape at saka yun po walang sinabing sinaksakan ng droga [If we base our findings on the testimonies of the teenagers seen with her before she was supposedly kidnapped, there was no abduction and no rape, and she was not forced to take drugs]," Cordillera regional police head Chief Superintendent Orlando Pestaño said in an interview on dzXL radio.

On Monday, a national broadsheet’s banner story said the girl was abducted and raped, triggering outrage among government officials.

While Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) head Dionisio Santiago vowed a Mexico-style war against drug rings, lawmakers found reason to push harder moves to revive capital punishment for drug traffickers.

But Pestaño said that even if there was no abduction or rape, this does not mean the government should take back its all-out war against drugs.

"Wala namang masama roon if (tuluy-tuloy na ipatutupad ang) total war ... we in the law enforcement agencies gusto ang masinsinang kampanya laban sa drugs. Pero yung basehan ng incident na yan, we’re just very objective about it, yan ang tinitignan natin," he said.

[We see nothing wrong with a total war on drugs. We in the law enforcement agencies want a total campaign against drugs. It’s just that we are very objective about this particular incident.]

Pestaño said a reconstruction of events based on the regional police’s findings showed the girl knocked off school after finishing a make-up class at 3:30 p.m. Saturday.

Some friends fetched her and they had a drinking spree at the house of another friend.

"Mga bandang 7 p.m., nalasing ang dalagita. At pagka lasing, di nila ma-control dahil patumba-tumba sa sala set, patayo, parang… walang control sa sarili niya, so they decided to bring her home [At about 7 p.m. the girl got drunk. When she could not control herself and repeatedly collapsed, her friends decided to bring her home]," Pestaño said.

"Samakatuwid if we base all the facts sa salaysay ng 4 [na] teenager na kasama niya roon wala talagang kidnapping, walang rape [If we base our findings on these, there was no kidnapping or rape]," he added.

He said the local Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency office had requested the girl’s parents for the girl to undergo drug test procedure.

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/167838/Police-...agents-daughter

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If in the course of inquiry the alleged victim cannot prove the crime which she had concocted, a case of perjury is looming for her and she instead would be the one behind bars.
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