ADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - More than 300 boys and men, some as young as five and many in chains and bearing scars from beatings, have been rescued in a raid on a building that purported to be an Islamic school in northern Nigeria, police said on Friday.
Most of the freed captives seen by a Reuters reporter in the city of Kaduna were children, aged up to their late teens. Some shuffled with their ankles manacled and others were chained by their legs to large metal wheels to prevent escape.
One boy, held by the hand by a police officer as he walked unsteadily, had sores visible on his back that appeared consistent with injuries inflicted by a whip.
Some children had been brought from neighboring countries including Burkina Faso, Mali and Ghana, police said, while others had been left by their parents in what they believed to be an Islamic school or rehabilitation center.
"This place is neither a rehab or an Islamic school because you can see it for yourselves," Kaduna state's police commissioner, Ali Janga, told reporters. "The children gathered here are from all over the country... some of them were even chained. They were used, dehumanized, you can see it yourself."
Kaduna police spokesman Yakubu Sabo said seven people who said they were teachers at the school had been arrested in Thursday's raid.
"The state government is currently providing food to the children who are between the ages of five and above," he said. It was not clear how long the captives had been held there.
The barangay chairperson accused of dealing illegal drugs sourced from corrupt police officers has denied the allegations against her.
According to Ivan Mayrina's report on "24 Oras", Barangay 484 chairman Guia Gomez Castro also took a jab at the Duterte administration's war on drugs, saying suspects nowadays get killed even if there was no proof against them.
"Hindi ko alam kung saan saan nila pinagkukuha yang mga sinasabi nilang link sa akin. God knows ni hindi ko kilala yang mga yan," Castro said in a statement coursed through someone close to her.
“Kahit anong sabihin ko at depensang gawin ko hindi rin naman ako paniniwalaan ng mga taong hindi naman ako kilala dahil sa isip nila ay hinusgahan na nila ako,” she added.
“Kung ang pananahimik kapalit ng kaligtasan ko sampu ng pamilya ko, mas nanaisin kong manahimik hindi ko na priority ang iisipin ng iba kung guilty ako sa paningin nila so be it," Castro said.
"Iba ang sistema ngayon wala nang pagkakataong idepensa ang sarili bigla na lang babarilin ang tao ngayon kahit wala pang napapatunayan," she added.
The Bureau of Immigration has confirmed that Castro left the country recently because she had no pending warrant of arrest.
A barangay official said she went to the United States.
Castro won the chairperson's seat in Barangay 484 in the 2018 barangay elections.
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Director General Aaron Aquino stood by the agency's information that Castro was buying drugs confiscated by corrupt policemen and bring them back into the market.
It was also alleged that the same policemen protect her by preempting anti-drug operations against her.
"Everything is intelligence based. So, kahit anong pag-defend niya sa sarili niya hindi niya made-defend talaga kasi lahat ng nakalap naming information ay binalidate at kinonfirm," Aquino said.
"Bumalik siya ng pilipinas at harapin niya lahat ng pinagagawa niya," she added. —NB, GMA News
Rap star Loonie, real name Marlon Peroramas, and two others have been indicted in connection with their alleged involvement in drug dealing.
The Makati City Prosecutor's Office recommended that no bail be set for the provisional liberty of the rapper, his sister Idyll Liza Peroramas and David Rizon.
The complaint for violation of Section 5 of the Republic Act 9165 against their fellow respondents Ivan Agustin and Albert Alvarez has been set for preliminary investigation.
Agustin was indicted for violation of Section 13 and a P3,000 bail was set.
Alvarez, the driver of the group when they arrested, was ordered released from custody of the law until he is detained for other unlawful causes.
Loonie, his sister, Rizon, Agustin, and Alvarez were nabbed in a buy-bust operation at the parking basement of a hotel in Barangay Poblacion, Makati last week.
Police seized 15 sachets of suspected kush or high-grade marijuana from the group.
Loonie and his fellow drug suspects has petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, which the Makati Regional Trial Court dismissed on Monday. —Joahna Casilao/NB, GMA News
For three decades or so, Armand Mijares has been climbing mountains and exploring caves, initially as an anthropologist studying the culture of indigenous groups, and later as an archaeologist searching for clues about the past.
With the success of his latest discovery, one can consider him the Philippines’ very own Indiana Jones –minus the death-defying stunts and golden treasures.
He even has the classic Indiana Jones theme song as a ring tone to boot.
Inside his office at the University of the Philippines (UP) are hundreds of knick knacks and curiosities, including two replicas of hominid skulls and a conspicuous yellow briefcase. Locked inside that briefcase are his latest treasures – 13 teeth and bones from a new species of ancient humans.
Mijares and his colleagues from around the world concluded that the fossilized remains make up an never-before-seen hominin species, which they now call Homo luzonensis based on the Philippines’ largest island Luzon.
“The discovery situates the Philippines as a major area of human evolutionary research,” Mijares said during a press conference last April 11 when he announced the findings.
He also believes that the discovery will result in many Philippine textbooks being revised to include theHomo luzonensis, not only as a new species, but as the oldest known ancient human in the archipelago.
Game-changing
As an archaeologist, Mijares always believed that only Homo sapiens – the species of the modern man – had been present in the Philippines, especially since most of the country was not connected to mainland Asia at a time when ancient humans were migrating out of Africa.
But when in 2007 he found a foot bone that did not fit in the description of Homo sapiens and other ancient human species, he started questioning his own beliefs.
“I needed to shift my own paradigm. I was on the side then…I was a believer that only Homo sapiens arrived in Luzon,” he said.
The Bureau of Immigration confirmed on Wednesday that a barangay captain who allegedly bought seized illegal drugs from rogue policemen has left the country.
Guia Gomez Castro, an alleged "drug queen," was "recently" allowed to leave the Philippines because she had "no derogatory records," BI spokesperson Dana Sandoval said.
The Philippine National Police said it is continuing a case buildup against Castro to see if the evidence would warrant the filing of charges.
The Manila Police District was the first to identify the alleged drug queen, but the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency had initially disclosed her operations.
The anti-drug agency claimed that her activities were being protected by policemen who resell illegal drugs that were confiscated during legitimate operations.
National Capital Region Police Office chief Police Major General Guillermo Eleazar said 16 police officers were connected to Castro's alleged drug operations. —Nicole-Anne C. Lagrimas/KBK, GMA News
Brixton Lorr is a cybernetically enhanced soldier who possesses superhuman strength, a brilliant mind and a lethal pathogen that could wipe out half of the world's population. It's now up to hulking lawman Luke Hobbs and lawless operative Deckard Shaw to put aside their past differences and work together to prevent the seemingly indestructible Lorr from destroying humanity.
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Another cadet of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) was rushed to the hospital on Monday, Armed Forces spokesman Marine Brigadier General Edgard Arevalo confirmed on Tuesday.
Arevalo, however, refused to identify the cadet, who also bore signs of maltreatment.
Arevalo said the cadet was brought to V. Luna Hospital in Quezon City.
An investigation into the matter is ongoing.
Last Wednesday, cadet Darwin Dormitorio was found unconscious in his room and rushed to the hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival.
The PMA later said that he died of injuries from hazing.
Earlier on Tuesday, Lieutenant General Ronnie Evangelista resigned as PMA superintendent. Brigadier General Bartolome Bacarro, the commandant of cadets, also resigned.
The PMA has already identified several cadets and officers involved in Dormitorio's hazing. — BM/JST, GMA News
MANILA, Philippines — President Duterte’s promise it would take only five minutes from Makati City to Cubao, Quezon City by December is just not doable, a Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) official said yesterday.
Bong Nebrija, EDSA traffic czar, said Duterte’s vision is far from at least 40 minutes it takes to travel from Makati to Cubao. “With the current setup, no,” Nebrija told The STAR.
“With the volume of vehicles and failure to get emergency powers, how can you drastically reduce the travel time on EDSA from more than one hour to five minutes?” he added.
Nebrija said with a court order stopping the implementation of the provincial bus ban, they are looking for new traffic reduction measures.
Private motorists travel at 19.3 kilometers per hour, equivalent to a travel time of one hour and 11 minutes, while buses travel at 12 kph or take two hours to travel from Roxas Boulevard in Pasay to Monumento, Caloocan City, according to Nebrija.
Citing data from the MMDA’s traffic engineering unit, Nebrija said they recorded an average of 405,000 vehicles going through EDSA per day in August this year and 410,000 vehicles per day in September alone.
The MMDA recorded an average of 402,000 vehicles on Dec. 19, 2018. Nebrija said it was the highest number of vehicles recorded last year, less than a week before Christmas Day.
The number of vehicles passing through EDSA is expected to increase by December, Nebrija said.
He said coordinating with the police Highway Patrol Group to enforce discipline among motorists is among the MMDA’s efforts to address the Christmas traffic problem.
Hustlers is a 2019 American crime drama film written and directed by Lorene Scafaria, based on New York magazine's 2015 article "The Hustlers at Scores" by Jessica Pressler. The film stars Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Stiles, Keke Palmer, Lili Reinhart, Lizzo, and Cardi B. The plot follows a crew of strippers in New York City who begin to steal money by drugging stock traders and CEOs who visit their club, then running up their credit cards. Lopez is also a producer on the film through Nuyorican Productions, alongside Jessica Elbaum, Will Ferrell, and Adam McKay through their Gloria Sanchez banner.
First announced in February 2016, the film was originally set to be financed and distributed by Annapurna Pictures. However, following the company's financial issues, they dropped the rights in October 2018. After STX Entertainment picked them up, much of the cast joined that fall through the following spring, and filming took place in New York City from March to May 2019.
Hustlers had its world premiere on September 7, 2019, at the Toronto International Film Festival, and was theatrically released in the United States on September 13, 2019, by STXfilms. The film has grossed $72 million worldwide and received positive reviews from critics, with Lopez's performance singled out for praise.
Three policemen may face administrative charges after they were caught sleeping while on duty in Las Piñas City on Monday.
The three were caught after National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) chief Police Major General Guillermo Eleazar made a surprise inspection in the Southern Police District (SPD).
Eleazar tcaught two mobile patrol officers, identified as Police Corporal Eugine Ybasco and Police Corporal Jayson Monsales, sleeping while their mobile was on standby along Alabang Zapote Road in Pamplona Dos.
During the inspection, Eleazar also caught Police Staff Sergeant Danny Cerbito sleeping while on duty as desk officer of Police Community Precinct 2 in Las Piñas City.
The NCRPO chief said the policemen were disarmed while investigation is ongoing to determine if they will be held liable for neglect of duty. —Anna Felicia Bajo/KBK, GMA News
The city government of Marikina is offering a P200,000 reward to anyone who can give information on the persons behind the dead pigs found floating in Marikina River.
A report by Mariz Umali on Balitanghali on Tuesday said although the local government has photos and information regarding the incident, they have no witnesses yet to provide a more detailed account.
The Marikina City Veterinary Office had recovered up to 58 dead pigs from the river as of Tuesday, prompting authorities to monitor the waterway closely.
Water-related activities including fishing and swimming along the river remained prohibited as it had yet to be verified whether the pigs taken from the waterway were positive for African swine fever.
The city government is planning to file a writ of kalikasan case next week in connection with the dead pigs based on the evidence that it would gather.
A writ of kalikasan is a remedy available to persons or groups whose right to a balanced and healthful ecology is violated or threatened with violation. —KBK, GMA News
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — More than 2,000 medically preserved fetal remains have been found at the Illinois home of a former Indiana abortion clinic doctor who died last week, authorities said.
The Will County Sheriff's Office said in a news release late Friday that an attorney for Dr. Ulrich Klopfer's family contacted the coroner's office Thursday about possible fetal remains being found at the home in an unincorporated part of Will County in northeastern Illinois.
The sheriff's office said authorities found 2,246 preserved fetal remains but there's no evidence medical procedures were performed at the home.
The coroner's office took possession of the remains. An investigation is underway.
A message left Saturday seeking additional comment on the discovery was not returned by the Will County Sheriff's Office investigations department.
Klopfer, who died Sept. 3, was a longtime doctor at an abortion clinic in South Bend, Indiana. It closed after the state revoked the clinic's license in 2015. The Indiana State Department of Health had previously issued complaints against the clinic, accusing it of lacking a registry of patients, policies regarding medical abortion, and a governing body to determine policies.
The state agency also accused the clinic of failing to document that patients get state-mandated education at least 18 hours before an abortion.
Klopfer was believed to be Indiana's most prolific abortion doctor, with thousands of procedures performed in multiple Indiana counties over several decades, the South Bend Tribune reported.
Mike Fichter, the president of Indiana Right to Life, said in a statement sent Friday night that "we are horrified" by the discovery of the fetal remains at Klopfer's Illinois residence. He called for Indiana authorities to help determine whether those remains have any connection to abortion operations in Indiana.
"These sickening reports underscore why the abortion industry must be held to the highest scrutiny," Fichter said in the statement.
A message left Saturday by The Associated Press for a spokesman for Gov. Eric Holcomb asking if Indiana officials would investigate was not immediately returned.
Klopfer's license was suspended by Indiana's Medical Licensing Board in November 2016 after the panel found a number of violations, including a failure to ensure that qualified staff was present when patients received or recovered from medications given before and during abortion procedures.
Klopfer was no longer practicing by that time, but he told the panel he had never lost a patient in 43 years of doing abortions and that he hoped to eventually re-open his clinics.
In June 2014, Klopfer was charged in St. Joseph County, Indiana, with a misdemeanor for failure to file a timely public report. He was accused of waiting months to report an abortion he provided to a 13-year-old girl in South Bend. That charge was later dropped after Klopfer completed a pre-trial diversion program.
Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Indiana, called the discovery of the fetal remains "sickening beyond words" in a statement released by her office.
"He was responsible for thousands of abortions in Indiana, and his careless treatment of human remains is an outrage," she said in her statement.
In May, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Indiana law requiring the burial or cremation of fetal remains following abortions in the state. That law was signed by Vice President Mike Pence in 2016 when he was Indiana's governor, but it was the subject of legal challenges.
The Indiana State Department of Health, which oversees abortion clinic regulation, has integrated that law's provisions into the agency's existing licensing process.
Prior to the ruling, Indiana clinics could turn over fetal remains to processors who handle the disposal of human tissues or other medical material by incineration.
FAKE NEWS was most prevalent on Facebook (FB) during the midterm elections period, with losing Senate candidates Lorenzo “Larry” Gadon and Glenn Chong topping the list of those with false and misleading claims, the results of a collaborative fact-checking project showed.
Based on data analysis by Tsek.ph, a pioneering fact-checking project involving 11 news organizations and three universities, the opposition Senate team Otso Diretso was the top target of disinformation and misinformation in the run-up to the May 2019 elections.
Professors at the Journalism Department of the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman presented the results of the fact-checking project on Friday in a forum with representatives of the media, academe and journalism students.
The fact-checkers looked into 131 deceptive claims related to the elections that were made on both conventional and digital communication tools. Of these, 67 were posted on Facebook, 28 were made on television, eight on other social media networks, seven on their websites, five in campaign ads, three in the curriculum vitae of candidates, and 13 on other platforms.
“Facebook is clearly a favored platform for disinformation during the elections,” said Jake Soriano, a lecturer at the UP Journalism Department.
Specifically, the kind of disinformation that the fact-checkers looked at were fabricated ad manipulated information intended to influence voters and the public; those aimed to undermine opponents’ chances of winning; and information that used overblown, false or nonsensical claim in political advertisements, statements and speeches, explained journalism professor Ma. Diosa Labiste, also from UP.
A content analysis of the materials showed that 74 percent fall under the category of disinformation and 20 percent under misinformation.
Labiste said disinformation came mostly from Duterte-aligned candidates, and that most of the false claims favored administration candidates and attacked the President Rodrigo Duterte’s critics.
Yvonne Chua, a tenured UP professor and a journalist, said while it was difficult to establish if election-related disinformation propelled certain candidates to victory and crushed the chances of others, a pattern emerged from Tsek.ph data showed that those most targeted lost their bids.
Of all the Otso Diretso candidates, former senators Manuel “Mar” Roxas 2nd and Paolo Benigno “Bam” Aquino 4th, who registered strong showing in pre-election surveys, were hit the most by disinformation and misinformation, Chua noted.
Roxas was a frequent victim of repurposed photos, a common strategy used by disinformation creators. These included a photo of Roxas riding a “padyak” with a misleading caption criticizing the supposed gimmickry. That was an old photo taken during the run-up to the 2010 elections and not during the 2019 campaign as the post insinuated.
Roxas was also the subject of a false blog post claiming that he had left the opposition slate. The disinformation did not stop even after Roxas had lost the election when an old photo was altered showing him with a woman offering him a rope tied into noose. That fake photo already went viral on social media during the 2016 election and was repurposed for the 2019 polls.
Gadon and Chong, meanwhile, used their Facebook accounts to post false claims against pre-election surveys and research organizations Pulse Asia and Social Weather Stations.
Labiste said “2022 will be no different from the 2019 elections, with the normalization of disinformation as part of election toolbox and the open misuse of social media.” She suggested that fact-checking become a habit not only by journalists, but also by the public at large.
Chua admitted that “fake news” had become problematic as it erodes trust in the media and it confuses the public about which information to trust or not.
A doctor at the New Bilibid Prison has come forward to bare the danger physicians at the penitentiary faced from inmates who want them to certify the gravity of their made-up sickness.
According to Tina Panganiban-Perez's report on "24 Oras", the witness said NBP doctors were forced to certify that some inmates were so seriously sick that they could not be treated at the penitentiary and had to be taken to a private institution.
They faced death if they refused to do so.
The witness is expected on Thursday to tell the Senate inquiry about this measure reportedly taken by the inmates to secure a trip outside the Muntinlupa prison.
"'Yung mga doctor pindadalhan ng bulaklak ng patay sa bahay. Pati yata tatlong nurses pinaldahan din," said the doctor who's expected to testify at the Senate on Thursday.
The threat against doctors was the latest controversy facing the NBP following the selling of good conduct time allowance credits by NBP officials and the sale of passes so inmates could stay at the NBP hospital.
“No choice sila pag di sila nagbigay ng passes papatayin din sila kaya maraming nagresign sila di kaya nila dibdibin out of security ay umalis na lang...” said Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption president Aresnio Evangelista.
Senator Bong Go said he received information that some inmates faked being sick so they could deal drugs.
He said President Rodrigo Duterte knew the witness.
"Siya po ang kusa na gustong tumulong. Dati po siyang opisyal ng gobyerno... Dati na po naming kilala ni President Duterte ito," Go said.
Go left it to the witness to disclose the other personalities involved in the hospital pass for sale.
"Most of these illegal drug transactions take place in Medical Ward 3, medical annex in Building 14 po. It involves several personalities, about eight of them," Go said.
Senator Panfilo Lacson said the cost of the hospital passes for sale range from P200,000 pesos to P2 million.
"And meron pa itong board and lodging amounting to 30,000 per day. Eh, wala namang mangyayaring ganoon kung walang magce-certify na doktor," Lacson said.
Four new witnesses are expected at the Senate on Thursday to shed light on the anomalies at the Bureau of Corrections.
"One of the persons that has been issued a subpoena is on the way here and we will keep him overnight until tomorrow," Senate President Vicente Sotto III said.
"Puro may mga experiences and involvement sa Bureau of Corrections. Merong dating inmate, merong mga dating bucor officials," he added. —NB, GMA news
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A newspaper report quoted NEDA Secretary Ernesto Pernia as claiming that a National ID System — which in our case, rolls out this month — will help curb leakages in the government’s cash transfer programs as it can help better identify “deserving beneficiaries” and also correct the “lag between the need of the citizens who merit assistance, and the provision of the budget.”
In this line, I urge the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) to hype up its pilot registration for the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) that starts this September, so that it can achieve its target of having the entire population registered before the end of 2022. Many still lack valid proof of identity that contains both basic personal information and biometric data.
It is bewildering how some private enterprises go about checking one’s identity in line with their own security protocols. In my opinion, some of these protocols defy logic. And since there doesn’t seem to be any government-set standards for such processes, there is no opportunity or recourse to question them. The use of a national ID can help set a standard for security checks.
Perhaps not unlike a few others, I always carry an “old” ID card for identification purposes — an expired driver’s license — when walking about the city sans wallet and credit cards. Just cash in my pocket, the old ID, house keys, and an old mobile phone. I carry the ID so that in case of an emergency or an accident, people can “identify” me.
- President Rodrigo Duterte shared his thoughts on the performance so far of Manila Mayor Isko Moreno
- According to the President, he admires the young mayor
- Duterte also thinks that Moreno is better than him
President Rodrigo Duterte commented recently about the most famous mayor in the Philippines today – Manila Mayor Isko Moreno.
KAMI learned that the President had pleasant things to say about the young mayor.
According to Duterte, he admires Moreno and believes that the Manila mayor is better than him.
“Bilib ako sa kanya. Nanonood ako kapag nagsasalita siya. Mas mahusay siya kaysa sa akin, sa totoo lang.
“May nakita ako na mas mahusay ang resolve niya kaysa sa akin,” Duterte said, as quoted by The Philippine Star.
In a previous report by KAMI, Moreno explained why he had a meeting with Coco Martin.
Isko Moreno has been married to Diana Lynn Ditan for 19 years already. They have five children – Vincent Patrick, born in 1998; Frances Diane, born in 2000; Joaquin Andre, born in 2001; Franco Dylan, born in 2006; and Drake Marcus, born in 2012.
- Senator Imee Marcos called out convenience stores like 7-11
- She criticized these 24/7 stores for jacking up the prices of their goods
- According to the Senator, the DTI should monitor these stores
Senator Imee Marcos called out convenience stores like 7-11 for allegedly taking advantage of consumers with the high prices of their goods.
KAMI learned that Marcos specifically pointed out the difference in the prices of goods found in ordinary stores and in convenience or 24/7 stores.
She then urged the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to monitor these stores and prevent them from going beyond the suggested retail prices (SRPs) of commodities.
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TALUSTUSAN, Philippines (AP) — The American priest's voice echoed over the phone line, his sharp Midwestern accent softened over the decades by a gentle Filipino lilt. On the other end, recording the call, was a young man battered by shame but anxious to get the priest to describe exactly what had happened in this little island village.
"I should have known better than trying to just have a life," the priest said in the November 2018 call. "Happy days are gone. It's all over."
But, the young man later told the Associated Press, those days were happy only for the priest. They were years of misery for him, he said, and for the other boys who investigators say were sexually assaulted by Father Pius Hendricks.
His accusations ignited a scandal that would shake the village and reveal much about how allegations of sex crimes by priests are handled in one of the world's most Catholic countries.
He was just 12 — a new altar boy from a family of tenant farmers anxious for the $1 or so he'd get for serving at Mass — when he says Hendricks first took him into the bathroom of Talustusan's little rectory and sexually assaulted him.
"I asked why he was doing this to me," the rail-thin 23-year-old said in an interview, the confusion still with him years later.
"'It's a natural thing,'" he said the priest told him, "'It's part of becoming an adult.'"
The abuse continued for more than three years, he says, but he told no one until a village outsider began asking questions about the American priest's extravagant generosity with local boys, and until he feared his brother would be the next victim.
In November, he went to the police and told them what he knew.
Soon after, local authorities arrested Hendricks, 78, and charged him with child abuse. Since then, investigators say, about 20 boys and men, one as young as 7, have reported that the priest sexually abused them. Investigators say the allegations go back well over a decade — through many believe it goes back for generations and could involve many dozens of boys — continuing until just weeks before the December arrest. Hendricks' lawyers insist he is innocent.
The AP, which does not identify alleged victims of sexual assault, has met with five of the accusers.
Hendrick's arrest was a sudden fall for a priest who had presided over this community for nearly four decades. He rebuilt Talustusan's chapel and installed rooftop loudspeakers to summon parishioners to Mass. He pressed officials to pave the village road. He drove the sick to the hospital and paid school fees for poor children. Many here will still tell you how much he did.
But the case also reflects much about the Philippines, a country where the church has long shrugged off the presence of its sex offenders and where the criminal justice system often ignores the problem.
"It's a culture of coverup, a culture of silence, a culture of self-protection," said the Rev. Shay Cullen, an Irish priest who has spent decades in the Philippines and works with victims of child sexual abuse. "It's a silent consent to the abuse of children."
In 2018, after the young man had gone to the police — but before Hendricks had been arrested — he recorded a phone call with the clergyman.
In extracts of the conversation heard by the AP, Hendricks laments the passing of those happy days, and admits to an unspecified "mistake on my part."
"Well, it's true. I'm not saying it's not. Did I say it's not?" Hendricks said, his voice a combination of self-pity and resignation.
He said he'd probably have to retire.
"So I have to learn," he continued. "I have to take the good with the bad."
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For nearly two decades, the Philippine church has vowed to confront a looming shadow of clergy abuse.
In 2002, the Philippines' national conference of bishops ended years of silence to admit that the church faced "cases of grave sexual misconduct" among the clergy. One archbishop estimated that 200 of the country's 7,000 priests may have committed some form of sexual impropriety. The bishops promised new rules that would "provide steps for profound renewal."
But in a country home to more than 80 million Catholics and churches that date to the time of Shakespeare, such promises have long disappeared into a haze of tradition, piety and clerical influence that suffuses everything from sex education classes to national politics.
Until about 2013, for example, the church's own guidelines insisted bishops did not need to report sexually abusive priests to police, saying they had "a relationship of trust analogous to that between father and son." Media reports and legal action "add to the pain" in cases of sexual abuse, Manila Cardinal Luis Tagle told the Catholic news site UCAN in 2012. In Asian cultures, he said, it is often better for such cases to be handled quietly, inside the church.
The church's influence remains vast here, even as it has seen its power chipped away in recent years, weakened by the spread of evangelical missionaries and attacks by the nation's populist president, Rodrigo Duterte.
Duterte, who says he was sexually abused by a priest while he was a student, has publicly derided bishops as "sons of bitches," and urged Filipinos to stop going to Mass. Investigators say Duterte is closely watching the Hendricks case.
On Biliran, the poor island where Hendricks spent nearly half his life, his fondness for boys had been widely discussed for decades among villagers, local officials and, according to a former Catholic brother, members of the clergy. While many people had long believed he was a pedophile, almost nothing was said openly. Nor did anyone act on the suspicions.
That's how it happens across the Philippines. The silence continues to shield the priest after priest.
On the island of Bohol, the priest Joseph Skelton serves mass, more than 30 years after the then-seminarian was convicted of sexual misconduct with a 15-year-old boy. Local news reports reveal even more working clergyman: the priest outside Manila who recruited young men for the priesthood after admitting to sexually assaulting teenage boys; the priest who moved into a bishops' residence after being accused of raping a 17-year-old girl; the composer of sacred music accused of sexually abusing boys as young as six.
Prosecutions of accused priests are exceedingly rare here, and convictions are rarer. "No priest in the Philippines has ever been convicted" of child sexual abuse, Bishop Buenaventura Famadico, who oversees a diocese south of Manila, told the Catholic newspaper La Croix last year. By comparison, the group BishopAccountability.org says that since 1990 more than 400 priests have been convicted in the U.S. on child sexual abuse charges.
The 23-year-old from Talustusan said he might not have come forward without encouragement from an American visitor to the village, the boyfriend of a woman related to an accuser. The American was shocked at the gifts the priest had doled out to him and other local boys and began to ask probing questions.
"He kept asking why Father Pius was doing these things for boys in the village," said the 23-year-old, who began wrestling than with his own feelings about what he should say.
"I thought this might be it, this might be the help I'm asking for, that my life will change," he said. Finally, he told his family, and then local authorities, about the abuse.
Even then, the case may not have gone anywhere without intervention by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The agency started its own probe of Hendricks under a statute that allows the U.S. government to prosecute child sexual abuse by American citizens anywhere in the world.
The local case against the priest would have stalled if U.S. authorities hadn't started their inquiry, pressuring Philippine authorities to act, according to an investigator involved in the case, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation is still underway.
Kenneth Hendricks was born in 1941 in working-class Cincinnati, as the Great Depression was grinding to an end. His parents divorced when he was young, and Hendricks' mother supported her two sons by cleaning houses.
By his late teens, Hendricks was interested in the Franciscans, the Catholic order of brothers and priests known for their long brown robes and centuries of work among the poor.
Hendricks became a Franciscan brother by his early 20s, taking the name Pius. His assignments ranged from the St. Catherine Indian School in Santa Fe, New Mexico to the then-rough Cincinnati neighborhood of Over-The-Rhine, where he helped run a youth boxing club.
His branch, the Province of St. John the Baptist, declined comment on his work, saying in a statement that it was "fully cooperating with the authorities."
Residents say Hendricks was still a Franciscan when he found his way to Talustusan, a village of about 2,000 people a couple of miles uphill from the coast. It was a quiet place with dirt roads, a small school and a time-worn chapel above the Anas River. He left the Franciscans around 1986 and soon after was ordained as a priest by the local diocese.
While Hendricks never learned to speak Bisaya, the primary local language, he seemed to love the village. He told his parishioners that he'd be buried one day in a storage room behind the chapel. "'Here is my tomb!'" he'd call out cheerfully, pointing to four concrete slabs set into the floor, near a battered statue of the Virgin Mary with broken hands and carefully manicured eyebrows.
But he never fit in fully. His quick temper and sharp tongue were intimidating. He chastised toddlers for not sitting at the front of the Talustusan chapel, and publicly berated adults who annoyed him. "Crazy Filipino people!" he would snap when he was frustrated.
Then there were the boys.
They stayed at Hendricks' house, rode in his car and walked with him through Talustusan, residents say. He gave them gifts ranging from clothing to money to school fees.
"All of us knew about Pius and his boys," said a former Catholic clergyman who worked with Hendricks for years, and who spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing retaliation from the church.
Once, at a gathering of priests and others, he said he erupted angrily at Hendricks, calling him a pedophile. That brought the clergyman a quick rebuke from church authorities who told him to keep quiet. Church officials declined to comment.
"All of them knew about Pius," he said of church leaders on the island, the anger still in his voice years after the confrontation.
Similar comments are echoed in Talustusan, where there is no indication police or church authorities looked into the allegations.
"Ever since I was young I heard the stories, that he would touch altar boys," said a longtime village resident, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing backlash from her neighbors.
Even the local prosecutor barely blinked when the case was brought to her.
"I was not really surprised, because he was always with small boys," said Edna Pitao-Honor. "We were friends, actually. But that ends when he's facing prosecution."
Yet the church has done little to reckon with its role in what investigators now say were years of his abuse.
The Rev. Romulo Espina, a top official in the Diocese of Naval, where Hendricks served, insisted neither he nor other diocesan leaders saw any signs of sexual mistreatment by the American.
But Espina, who worked regularly with Hendricks in a small cluster of offices behind the main regional cathedral, also quickly made clear that if Hendricks did anything wrong, the church bears no responsibility.
"If it is true, has he told to do it? No," Espina said. "You cannot attach the behavior to the institution. It is the devil."
Hendricks, Espina said, was told something similar.
"If there is a criminal case, we told him 'This is your fight. You have to face the music.'"
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Poverty is deeply rooted in Talustusan, where many people get by working on nearby coconut plantations or rice paddies. Others run informal gas stations, selling gasoline in old Pepsi bottles, or operate home groceries where they offer tiny bars of soap and packets of instant coffee for a few cents apiece.
For a village-like Talustusan, having its own priest — particularly an American one — meant a financial boost, with donations to rebuild the chapel, and jobs as drivers and clerks. Hendricks became the center of his own small economy, doling out jobs, loans, and gifts. He built a little library, where theological texts (The Law of Christ, The Catholic Catechism) sit beside secular fare (two biographies of Justin Bieber, a British royal wedding video).
His presence also brought status, setting Talustusan apart from the other poor farming villages.
"We were the only village that had our own priest!" said Ayelina Abonales, 55, one of the groups of local women who now fiercely defend Hendricks.
For parents, having a church also meant their sons could earn a little money by serving as altar boys.
In a tradition common in Philippine villages— a custom often observed to this day — altar boys were expected to stay overnight on Saturdays at the priest's house. That way, they could get up early to prepare for Mass.
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Sometimes, the boy would try to stay home on Saturday nights, hoping to avoid the priest and the rectory and what he knew would happen there.
But Hendricks would send other boys running to the three-room house he shared with his parents and six siblings. The house is a monument to working-class aspirations and Catholic devotion, a plain concrete building decorated with school awards, plastic rosaries, and statues of Jesus. "The priest wants you back there!" they'd call to the boy, now the 23-year-old man who reported Hendricks to authorities.
His mother would insist he stay at the rectory: "It's good for you," she would say.
"I had to go back," he said recently, sitting at a small beachfront restaurant, speaking above the gentle crash of the surf and the warble of karaoke singers crooning 1970s American love songs.
He believes most of Hendricks' altar boys were sexually abused, with some occasionally confiding in others about what was happening. But mostly, he says, it was a silent brotherhood of shame.
Victims say the abuse often started off with Hendricks' bathing them, then progressing to oral and anal sex. Boys would often be cast aside once they reached their late teens or got involved with girls.
"He got jealous" if someone had a girlfriend, said a teenager from a troubled village family who said he was abused at age 15. The assaults ended after a couple of months, the teenager said, when he refused to work as an altar boy.
Even now, the 23-year-old can't explain why he kept returning to the rectory.
"It's like I was trapped," he said. "I don't know myself anymore when I'm there."
In part, it was about money. Hendricks paid him a few dollars a week and eventually bought him a motorcycle. When he said he wanted to leave the village for a distant school, Hendricks built an extra room beside the family house, giving the young man his own bedroom.
"I didn't want him to touch me. I only wanted to work for him," the 23-year-old said. "But then I was depending on him."
Things finally changed in 2015 with a case of "tulo" — gonorrhea — which he says he got from Hendricks. After that "I did not let him touch me anymore," he said.
Most of Hendricks' accusers are from the lower rungs of the village's economic ladder, tough-talking teenagers with spiked hair and a love for noisy motorbikes.
Occasionally, though, their defenses drop. At one point, the 23-year-old's voice drifts away, and he begins addressing Hendricks directly: "Father, how could my life be without you? And why are you doing this to me?"
He craves an apology: "I want him to feel that inside I am already destroyed."
Experts say victims can have immense trouble breaking away from their abusers, many of them adept manipulators who have woven themselves deeply into children's lives.
That confusion is amplified when abusers are priests, often revered as Christ-like figures in the Philippines, and amplified further when the priests are foreigners.
A foreign priest "would be beyond any suspicion, and any complaint would be denied and covered up," said Cullen, the Irish priest.
Even during the recorded phone call, the 23-year-old found no victory. He apologized repeatedly for what the priest was going through, even as he tried to get Hendricks to say outright what he had done.
"I'm so sorry about it, Father," he said. "I'm so sorry."
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In 2016, the Philippine church again committed itself to change, vowing "transparency, accountability, and cooperation with civil authorities" in clergy child abuse cases.
As a result, over the past few years, bishops and priests have launched awareness campaigns and run training sessions. Official guidelines now spell out victims' rights and bar moving predatory priests.
Inside the church, such regulations are seen as ground-breaking.
"From their perspective, they're making huge changes," said Dr. Gabriel Dy-Liacco, a Manila-based psychotherapist who has studied sexual abuse and is a member of Pope Francis' sex abuse advisory board.
But even as the church promises change it also appears to spread the blame, with a 2016 statement from the bishops' conference saying abused children are "not necessarily the passive partner in an exploitative relation."
The government, meanwhile, is often openly intimidated by the church's influence.
Pitao-Honor, the prosecutor who filed the charges against Hendricks, noted in court documents that the priest's stature, and the chaos that accusations against him could spark in Talustusan, made her proceed very carefully "as if treading on top of eggshells piled one after the other."
Plus, some key issues, such as when predatory priests must be reported to civil authorities, remain confusing, and experts say abuse cases rarely get reported. The Philippine church declined to respond to questions on those and other issues.
Silence remains the rule.
"Very often it's taken care of quietly, and outside of the public sphere," said Dy-Liacco.
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There are those in Talustusan who mourn for Hendricks.
"I don't understand why they say these things about Father Pius," said Edrich Sacare, a 37-year-old from an impoverished family who spent nearly a decade living with Hendricks, working as an altar boy and at the church. Hendricks, in turn, sent Sacare to school. He insists he never saw Hendricks behave improperly. "Father Pius was strict, but he was kind to people."
A balding man in a basketball jersey, Sacare is in obvious pain as he speaks about Hendricks' arrest.
"Anyone who asked, Father Pius was willing to help," he said, sitting on the porch of his house, a short walk from the church. On the wall is a poster from his 7-year-old daughter's birthday party.
The accusations have divided the village, cutting through friendships and families and isolating the accusers, who say the benefits Hendricks brought — status, money, jobs — blinded villagers to his crimes. Often, the accusers say, they are shunned on the streets by people they have known all their lives.
Hendricks' supporters say the accusers invented the charges, angry the priest stopped financially supporting them. The priest's lawyers dismiss any talk of guilt, with attorney Melvin Vaporoso declaring him "innocent of the charges."
Numerous priests and brothers and a retired bishop who oversaw Hendricks either declined to comment or did not respond to repeated messages. In Cincinnati, the archdiocese has acknowledged Hendricks received some financial support from its missionary office but added a note to its website declaring, "Fr. Hendricks is not, nor has ever been, a priest of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati."
For now, Hendricks is being held in a Manila jail, facing Philippine and U.S. child abuse charges that could put him in prison for decades. U.S. Attorney Benjamin Glassman in Cincinnati, who filed the American charges, calls them "very serious, very disturbing allegations." U.S. investigators are also looking into whether Hendricks may have been involved in sexual misconduct during his time as a Franciscan brother in New Mexico and Ohio in the 1960s and 1970s.
Philippine jails are notoriously overcrowded, and people in contact with Hendricks say he's losing weight and isn't sleeping well.
Back in Talustusan his house sits empty. There's one chair at the dinner table. A houseplant is dying on the windowsill, its leaves turning brown. The narrow single bed is neatly made.
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Associated Press reporters Dan Sewell in Cincinnati and Jim Gomez in Manila, and investigative researcher Randy Herschaft in New York contributed to this report.
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