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Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation rescued three teenage girls from three suspected pimps in an entrapment last week in Malate, Manila.
The suspects were identified as Mario Benito Valera alias “Mike Garcia”, 56, of No. 21-A Fourth St., Ignacio Village, Quezon City; Maureen Escalante, alias “Mao”, 21, of No. 1983 Kahilom II, Pandacan, Manila; and Matthew Paras, 17, of 2324 F. Balagtas St., Pandacan, Manila. Those rescued were girls aged 16 and 17.
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Identities and circumstances of human trafficking offenders are no longer held "sacred" in the recently signed Republic Act 10364 or the Expanded Anti-Human Trafficking Law which amended Republic Act 9208 that previously gave confidentiality protection to victims and also erroneously extended the same to human traffickers.
With the new rule on confidentiality, members of the media can now publish or broadcast the names and other circumstances of offenders to give a fair warning to the public not to do business with them and avoid being victimized.
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Republic of the Philippines
Congress of the Philippines
Metro Manila
Fifteenth Congress
Third Regular Session
Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-third day of July, two thousand twelve.
Read more: Republic Act No. 10364 or The Expanded Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2012