PAGADIAN
CITY: Police rescued from human trafficking six females--five of them minors--in
a karaoke bar in Pitogo, Zamboanga del Sur, information reaching Misamis News
Digest said.
Police
Regional Office 9 P/Insp. Dahlan Samuddin said the victims were rescued by the
combined police operatives of Siay in the nearby Sibugay province and Pitogo with
MSWD personnel in the karaoke house owned by a certain Gloria Pacatang alias
Nining and Sita Mandano in Poblacion Pitogo.
Samuddin
the said the rescued victims came from this city and the nearby towns of Siay
and Pitogo.
Samuddin
added that the victims and two of the victims’ mother told him the minors were recruited
without parental consent and told to work in a karaoke bar.
As
of press time, DSWD provided stress debriefing to the rescued victims after
which they were turned over to their respective families.
In
Zamboanga City, some 50 would-be victims of human trafficking were reportedly rescued
Nov. 4, Wednesday, at a private wharf in Baliwasan, Zamboanga City Police
Office (ZCPO) said.
The
rescued victims were on board the ML Nurhina, a passenger vessel docked at the
wharf reportedly bound for Sandakan, North Borneo where jobs supposedly awaited
the undocumented passengers.
The
victims, added the ZCPO Anti-Vice Section, were later brought to the
anti-trafficking organization Visayan Forum for processing.
(NEWS POSTED ALSO IN HARDLINE WEEKLY, PAGADIAN CITY)