Cebu Vice Gov. Agnes Magpale is scheduled to take the witness stand in today鈥檚 presentation of evidence related to the June 1 Cordova cyber pornography case.
Magpale, in an interview, said she will tell the court how the Provincial Women鈥檚 Commission (PWC)聽 got involved in the case involving parents who made five children and a niece perform nude in front of a web camera in exchange for cash.
鈥淚f the children will be called (to testify), they will be chambered here,鈥� Magpale said.
She was referring to a holding room set up in the legislative building near the vice governor鈥檚 office.
Forensic experts who checked the evidence will also testify before Judge Toribio Quiwag at the Regional Trial Court Branch 27 in Lapu-Lapu City at 2 p.m. today.
Magpale said the children are better nourished than when they were rescued.
鈥淭he niece has new clothes. I told her, 鈥榊ou know what? You look very fashionable,鈥欌�� Magpale said.
The girl said they are very happy where they are now and asked if she could have a younger sibling brought over, the vice governor said.
Another victim, a聽 3-year-old girl, was looking for her parents but is now content in the care of her聽 eldest brother.
鈥淵es, they long for their parents but what kind of parents are they? I wish I could show you their faces and you will see why we won鈥檛 return them to their parents,鈥� Magpale said.
The six children are being schooled using an聽 Alternative Learning System.
Magpale said they will soon be transferred to a new center and enrolled in a regular school.
PWC is shouldering all聽 the expenses of the six kids.
Meanwhile, the Children鈥檚 Legal Bureau (CLB)聽 will not file charges against the parents of four children who were allegedly abused by an Australian national in Naga City.
The parents in an interview said they聽 didn鈥檛 know their children were sexually abused, said聽 CLB lawyer Jo-ann Suarez Pabriaga.
鈥淎ll they know is that their daughters are working students who live with the Australian,鈥� Pabriaga told Cebu Daily 黑料社.
One of the four children rescued last Wednesday complained to the CLB last聽 April and they filed abuse case against 78-year-old Angelo Farina.
However, the girl鈥檚 parents, who聽 met with CLB yesterday, said they signed an affidavit of desistance and received P20,000 to withdraw their complaint.
Pabriaga said the other parents assured them they would support the filing of cases against the Australian national.
She said聽 the parents can help聽 the children 聽open up about the incident.
鈥淲e are pleased that the parents did not desist. Their children need them as guidance for the case,鈥� she said.
Three children told them that they were not sexually abused, said social worker Edna Regudo of the Department of Social welfare and Development in Central Visayas.
鈥淥nly one child admitted that she was sexually abused,鈥� Regudo said in an interview.
She said two of the聽 children still have to undergo medical examination and trauma assessment at the Pink Room of Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center. /Candeze R. Mongaya and Carmel Loise Matus