I can feel so much for the Filipina mom and her daughter as the latter’s ex-boyfriend tried to extort money so the video uploaded in youtube would be removed. She is lucky because police operatives located the ex-boyfriend. The sad thing here is the video already spread through the internet. She is forever shamed.

Lately, two filipinas became victims of an unauthorized video being spread across the internet. One of the victims is Katrina Halili, the ex-lover of Haydn Kho. Katrina Halili filed a complaint against Kho at the headquarters of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), accusing Kho of filming his sexual encounter without her consent. She is “willing to face all this embarrassment so that other people may learn. I want to fight back because I don’t want this to happen to me again or to other women,” she said. (Source: Inquirer.net)

“Women should be careful whom to trust. And I want those people responsible for circulating the videos to be punished. I’ll face all of them. Napakawalanghiya nila (They’re shameless).”

Katrina Halili is not the only Filipina victim. Three of the videos are now hot items in cyberspace and are being passed from one e-mail account to another. Copies are purportedly being sold to video pirates.

Suspending the license of Kho does not solve the real problem of sex scandal videos. There need to be a long term solution to discourage the proliferation of these videos in cyberspace.

Based on this shameful sex scandal, lessons can be learned. Bills should be expedited.

1. Sen. Pia Cayetano filed Senate Bill 3267, an anti-voyeurism bill that would prevent a person from videotaping another person, and distributing such a video, without the other’s consent.

Under the bill, it will be unlawful for any person to record or attempt to record any private acts, including but not limited to sexual acts, without the consent of all the concerned parties.

It will also be unlawful for any person to “knowingly possess’’ any video tape, disc or any such record or their copies, “with the intent to share, relay or exhibit the contents.’’

The bill also bars a person from sharing or exhibiting these records.

2. According to Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez, Haydn Kho may be charged under Republic Act No. 9262 (or the Anti-Violence against Women and Children Act of 2004).

He said Section 3 of the law banned treating women and children as sex objects, forcing them to commit indecent acts, and making films of them.

3. Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita also advised the public to be careful in the company of people who might take videos of them and later subject them to “anything that is offensive and embarrassing to your person.”

4. Maybe it is time to revive Senate Bill No. 2464, the Proposed Anti-obscenity and Pornography Act of 1008 filed by Senate President Manuel Villar, Jr.

5. Secretary Gonzalez said the persons behind the production and proliferation of the sex videos could be held liable either as accessories or accomplices in the commission of the crime.

Lastly and more importantly,

6. Bloggers should be responsible enough not to post photos, links, videos of this latest sex video scandal. I feel those who post these may just be as guilty of violating the law. The proliferation through blog posts can be seen as accessories in this commission of the crime. That’s just my opinion

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    12 Comments »

    Comment by Dinah
    2009-05-21 09:51:20

    i agree with you. posting pictures and videos of these scandal only add fuel to the fire.

    Dinahs last blog post..Rough Road in Rodriguez, Rizal

     
    Comment by DJB
    2009-05-25 00:34:50

    It seems to me that Katrina Halili herself, and her employers are the most guilty of promoting voyeurism in society. Perhaps the law ought to be directed at her commercial sex promotion activities involving public titillation, soft porn touches and low brow techniques for advertising all manner of commercial products and services. Like Dr. Hayden Kho’s vainglorious attempts at improving on God’s handiwork.

    DJBs last blog post..Live by the Pudenda, Die by the Pudenda

    Comment by noemi
    2009-05-25 00:45:43

    The law may be applicable to Katrina and those responsible for those soft-porn touches and other commercial production of semi-clothed models in ads, TV etc. The bill should be expanded to these TV shows, ads and other public displays including billboards.

    What about the other Hayden victim, Maricar Reyes? She was the girlfriend of Hayden when they were still at medical school. Maricar is innocent and totally ignorant that Hayden had the capability to shoot this sex video. That was taken 2 years ago. Today she is a practicing doctor. She must be devastated. H

    Comment by DJB
    2009-05-25 06:38:31

    Noemi, how many victims would you estimate are there out there from the “work” done by Katrina Halili and Maricar Reyes? In the noontime shows aren’t we seeing the “farm teams” that will later blossom into the professional leagues of Katrina Halili Titillators and Maricar Reyes Bimbos? (And let’s not even get started with the Gigols, hehe).

    Yet it is not simply a matter of passing a law. What KH has done all her life is scatter chicken feathers of lust and sex-mania from the rooftops. Now she wants a City Ordinance banning others doing the same?

    DJBs last blog post..Live by the Pudenda, Die by the Pudenda

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    Comment by noemi
    2009-05-25 07:02:17

    I am thinking millions of victims involved.

    Maybe Katrina wants to change her image from sinner to saint? Who knows she may be instrumental in preventing others to do the same?

     
     
     
     
    Comment by DJB
    2009-05-25 06:34:51

    The public reaction is expectable. They are discovering the utter hypocrisy of the sub-rosa industry in which Katrina Halili and Hayden Kho have both operated and enriched themselves off the vice-ridden, demoralized lifestyle of the common tao. I am cold to them both.

    DJBs last blog post..Live by the Pudenda, Die by the Pudenda

     
    Comment by Ishmael Ahab
    2009-06-03 14:37:11

    The Filipino people is indignant of what happened to these ladies but on the other side, these are the same people who are qeueing to watch these videos.

    In the end, the issue will be forgotten and Filipinos will focus on the more current scandals.

    What this problem need is a genuine action so as to result into a genuine progress.

     
    Comment by Jon
    2009-06-10 22:56:51

    I felt sad of what’s happening to some Filipinas, yes, I also agree that posting others videos let the fire burning… Hope people who are doing these will think twice before doing something to destroy others reputation and security.

    Jons last blog post..Life with Meaning

     
    Comment by giftsphilippines
    2009-08-01 00:09:21

    There are lot of victims on this issue, why they need to video what they doing? I feel so sad coz i am also a filipina girl….

     
    Comment by Faith
    2009-08-18 23:08:45

    Can a child under 18 start a person injury claim ?

     
    Comment by jay-R
    2009-12-16 12:14:50

    dapat ang babae minamahalat hindi pinaglalaruan

     
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