Diumano kulto na Surigao, inimbestigahan na ng Senado! | Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho - video Dailymotion

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Ang mga sangkot sa diumano’y kulto sa Surigao, kabilang ang kanilang lider na si Senior Agila, ipinatawag na sa Senado. Samantala, ang bilang ng mga biktimang lumantad, nadagdagan pa! Sa paghaharap ng mga biktima at ng mga inaakusahang nang-abuso, kaninong panig ang pakikinggan? Ang follow up report, panoorin sa video na ito.

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00:00 The unruly cult in Surigao del Norte that is being victimized by children under the age of three

00:08 will be investigated by the Senate.

00:12 The cries of hundreds of members of the SBSI or Socorro Bayanihan Services Incorporated are echoing.

00:27 "Officer! Officer!"

00:29 The clothes are even color-coded in Sitio Capihan in Socorro, Surigao del Norte.

00:38 "Officer! Officer!"

00:40 This is after they received an invitation from the Senate to investigate the unruly,

00:46 violating the human rights of their group,

00:50 and treating them as a cult.

00:55 "Officer! Officer!"

00:57 They showed their full support to their leader,

01:02 J. Renz Killario, better known as "Senior Aguila."

01:09 "Officer! Officer!"

01:12 In that gathering, the crowd seemed to be entangled.

01:18 "Let's go! Let's go!"

01:23 "Let's go! Let's go!"

01:25 "Officer! Officer!"

01:34 "We are not going to allow them to leave without evidence."

01:40 "We are really hurt by this because we are not doing anything wrong."

01:47 More than 5,000 members of the SBSI in Sitio Capihan,

01:52 mostly professionals like teachers, police, and government employees,

01:58 were encouraged to climb the mountain.

02:00 "The magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit several parts of Surigao del Norte."

02:05 After the magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit the town of Socorro in 2019,

02:11 "We all mass-resigned and climbed the mountain."

02:15 under the promise of God,

02:17 a new paradise where they lived under the mountain's roof.

02:22 "God promised us that we will go to heaven."

02:25 "That's what we were thinking back then that He is really God."

02:29 Here, they have their own houses, families, radio stations,

02:36 and a cultural center.

02:41 But according to some members, the promised paradise became...

02:45 a nightmare.

02:48 "I keep thinking, 'Why did I stay there for so long?'"

02:52 "All the children should be doing something.

02:56 They go to the barracks and there's almost nothing to eat.

02:59 The people there are starving."

03:01 "All the money that people are collecting..."

03:05 "They told me, 'You can move that. You can rape her because she's your wife.'"

03:10 And the most troublesome thing here is that

03:13 even minors are being raped.

03:16 "I really know who caused the turbulence and who raped her."

03:20 "That's not true, ma'am. It's all lies."

03:23 "All the allegations were vehemently denied because it's not true. It was fabricated."

03:28 "Why are they denying it? Why are we the ones who are saying it?

03:31 We're just creating words that are not true."

03:37 But this week, new evidence and videos were released

03:42 that proved that the SBS is a cult.

03:46 The minors are being forced to be in the training ground

03:51 to get used to the military.

03:57 The children are being forced to work.

04:02 And some minors are being forced to kiss the soldiers.

04:08 In the return of our team to Surigao, there are also new revelations.

04:14 "The one I was given to be my wife, even though she's my ex,

04:18 she's with her. They have a child."

04:20 "I got off the plane on March 6, 2023 because it was hard there. We didn't have a job."

04:26 "On March 29, I received a call from the government that your husband is being forced by Sen. Aguilar to marry another woman."

04:35 "The root of the issue is child sexual abuse.

04:39 It's a violation of the rights of women and our families."

04:44 "She's a prostitute!"

04:46 "J-Rans is being called to the Senate, so she should go to the Senate."

04:52 "She's a prostitute!"

04:55 This Thursday, from Socorro, Sen. Aguilar's group flew to Manila to face the Senate.

05:03 "I want to call our child victim survivors."

05:08 One of the witnesses against the SBSI is 15-year-old Alyas Jane,

05:14 who was forced to be married by Sen. Aguilar only last year.

05:18 "How old is your husband?"

05:20 "He's 19 now. He's a minor."

05:22 "Is your husband your first boyfriend?"

05:25 "I don't know him."

05:27 "Who chose your husband for you?"

05:29 "Sen. Aguilar."

05:31 "Sen. Aguilar said, 'You're a man, you're a prostitute.'

05:36 He said, 'If I were a woman, I wouldn't be able to do it.

05:41 I wouldn't be able to do it because I'm a woman.

05:43 I can't marry a man who's a prostitute because I was born in Paris.'"

05:47 And then Jane, after the marriage, what happened next?

05:52 "We were forced to leave Paris.

05:55 We had a permit to go to the city.

05:59 After the marriage, we had to go back to our home.

06:03 They said, 'You have to get your husband back because you're a woman.'"

06:09 Sen. Aguilar said, "Your husband was authorized to rape you?"

06:13 "Yes, he was authorized to rape me.

06:17 I was forced to get my husband back."

06:20 "Why do you want to have sex with your husband?

06:24 He's a 12-year-old boy.

06:26 You're forcing him to have sex with a man he doesn't like?"

06:30 "That's not true, sir. That's not true, your honor."

06:33 Jane also believed that even she sometimes

06:37 didn't want to have sex with Sen. Aguilar himself.

06:41 "I told him, 'Okay, I'll do it.

06:43 I'll do it.

06:45 I'll do it.

06:47 I'll do it.

06:49 I'll do it.'"

06:50 Under the guidance of the DSWD,

06:52 the youngest witness also faced the Senate's investigation.

06:57 Alias Renz is now 12 years old.

06:59 She's not only a prostitute,

07:02 but also a mother of 10 other minors.

07:04 They also said that their mother held a gun like a soldier.

07:10 "I was afraid of getting shot.

07:12 I was scared of getting shot.

07:14 I was scared of getting shot.

07:16 You were being shot?

07:18 Yes.

07:19 For what?

07:20 For our barracks."

07:21 You said that you saw the guns.

07:27 Were those real guns, Renz?

07:30 No.

07:31 "We were shooting.

07:33 We were doing military training.

07:34 Those were just props."

07:35 Were those guns real or just props made of wood?

07:40 "They were real, ma'am."

07:41 "The guns that we see on Facebook,

07:44 that we used back then,

07:46 we made them for a preparation for making short films.

07:51 They were all made of wood."

07:52 "Definitely, we can say that those were not made of wood.

07:57 They were made for the private army

08:00 because long firearms are used in combat uniforms."

08:04 If they do not follow the orders of Sen. Aguila,

08:08 the children will be punished.

08:11 "So instead of a roulette, you have a winning roulette

08:14 that will punish you."

08:17 "You can't go to the streets and get beaten,

08:22 you can't jog, you are restricted to the park."

08:25 "Did you taste the gun?"

08:27 "Yes.

08:28 I was surrounded by wood,

08:30 and I was shot from above.

08:33 I fell."

08:35 Because of the lack of work and training of the children in the camp,

08:40 most of the children under their age group

08:44 do not know how to write and read.

08:47 "They are 12 years old, they can't write."

08:51 "They don't have any education, Your Honor.

08:54 They were really forced to go down."

08:58 "2019, massive dropout of learners from elementary high school.

09:03 800 plus learners dropped out."

09:06 SBSI is a defense.

09:09 They have their own education program.

09:12 "Their teachers came from the district.

09:16 They brought their children to the school.

09:20 They brought visual aids and learning materials for the children."

09:28 "Are the teachers licensed teachers?"

09:31 "Mostly licensed teachers.

09:34 There are few and many not eligible."

09:36 "The teachers are okay, they are friendly.

09:38 They teach us for our future."

09:42 "Actually, it's a domino effect.

09:44 What happened to us in our childhood,

09:46 we will carry it until we grow up.

09:48 So if the experiences of childhood are not pleasant,

09:52 it will acquire wrong values that are not acceptable by society."

09:58 Because of the trauma and the unbearable treatment in their world,

10:03 more than 20 members fled, like Lovely.

10:08 "What I want to happen is to take their children

10:11 so that they can return to their homeland,

10:13 to return to their old lives, Ma'am."

10:16 Even some of Lovely's relatives who were left in Sitio,

10:20 were against her decision.

10:22 One of the evil intentions of Lovely

10:26 was to force her to return to her father in Sitio, Capihan,

10:31 who was suffering from a serious illness.

10:33 "I brought her to Surigao.

10:35 I checked her up.

10:36 Her finding was that she needed to be operated and admitted.

10:39 We were told to go to Surigao.

10:43 My father took her and I cried.

10:46 I told my mother, 'Why do you want to kill my father?

10:49 Why don't you want to admit my father?

10:52 I want my father to live, Ma'am.

10:54 But my mother didn't allow it.

10:57 They brought her back to the mountains.

10:59 Since then, I haven't seen my father, Ma'am."

11:02 Until Lovely heard that her father had died.

11:07 "Did she know her father's death?"

11:10 "She didn't know, Ma'am.

11:12 My mother and my brother didn't tell her.

11:15 That's what hurts, Ma'am."

11:17 "Where did you bury her father?"

11:19 "In the cemetery."

11:20 "Did you bury him in the cemetery?"

11:21 "Yes."

11:22 "What did you do to him?"

11:24 "He had a stomachache, Sir."

11:27 "Was the cemetery registered where you said

11:30 you buried Ms. Lovely's father?"

11:32 "The cemetery of Barangay Sering is around 3 kilometers from our Sitio."

11:38 "I asked her.

11:39 It's easy.

11:40 I can answer your question.

11:42 If it's registered or not."

11:44 "I want to explain it to you."

11:49 "Do you need to explain the registration?"

11:52 "That's when I got angry with your family

11:54 that they were the ones who asked my father to check up

11:56 and to get him to take medicine.

11:57 They lied to me.

11:58 They didn't give even a peso."

12:01 "When the number of birth certificates

12:03 of children started to decrease in 2019,

12:08 no one got married.

12:10 The elderly and the pensioners

12:14 were the only ones registered."

12:17 Because she was not convinced by the leaders of SBSI,

12:22 Senator Bato de la Rosa and Senator Risa Ontiveros

12:26 condemned Ms. Aguila and her three other colleagues.

12:31 "Despite all the witnesses of our victim-survivors,

12:35 are there child marriages in the neighborhood?"

12:39 "There's none, ma'am.

12:41 There's none."

12:42 "I do not know anything about

12:45 that there was such a thing in the neighborhood."

12:48 "Senor Aguila, Mr. Killario?"

12:50 "No, there was no such thing."

12:52 "In those answers,

12:54 I respectfully move to cite in contempt

12:58 J. Renz Killario,

13:01 Mamerto Galanida,

13:03 Janet Ahok,

13:05 and Karen Sanico."

13:07 "I so move, Mr. Chair."

13:08 "Is there any objection?"

13:11 "Hearing none,

13:13 the four

13:17 aforecited personalities

13:21 are hereby cited in contempt.

13:24 So ordered."

13:25 They will remain in prison for a quarter of a year in the Senate

13:30 until an order is issued on when they will be released.

13:34 "Why is it biased?

13:35 Why is no one investigating here

13:37 and there are already findings?"

13:38 "I am calling for justice.

13:45 We won't stay here long

13:47 if there are wrongdoings done here, sir."

13:50 "I hope that, Lord,

13:52 they all get justice."

13:55 Some residents of Socorro

13:57 were happy that the Senate was able to bring the case to the court.

14:01 Leticia is one of them.

14:03 She is the wife of Mr. Aguila.

14:05 "Everything that happened,

14:07 what people are saying

14:09 in front of the Senate,

14:11 it's all true, sir.

14:13 Not only because I knew him as a good boy,

14:17 I didn't really do anything to him.

14:19 Maybe what he did was to answer

14:21 especially to the children."

14:22 "We recommend that we provide financial assistance

14:25 to the victims.

14:27 We will coordinate with the Department of Social Work and Development

14:31 to ensure the welfare of the children

14:34 inside the house

14:36 and those in the care of the Municipal Social Worker's Development Office.

14:41 We will also coordinate with the Department of Education

14:44 to provide access to education to the children there."

14:49 "There is a thing called delusion of grandeur.

14:51 It's a false belief that you are superior to most.

14:56 The common example of delusion of grandeur

14:59 is the belief that you have a special relationship with a supernatural entity

15:04 and they are the manifestation of God in this world.

15:08 People also believe in it."

15:10 "There is human trafficking there.

15:12 There is a violation of early child marriage.

15:15 There is also a violation of Republic Act 7610,

15:18 the child abuse law.

15:20 I think there is also a serious illegal detention

15:23 because they were detained there for a long time."

15:27 In this group,

15:30 the experiences of the members were different.

15:34 So it seems that they also fought differently.

15:38 In the investigation of the Senate,

15:43 I hope the truth and the evidence will be heard.

15:49 So, all good.

15:51 Thank you so much, Kapuso!

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