Law enforcers arrested at least 27 people in two cybersex dens in Las Piñas and Mandaluyong cities Monday.
Mandaluyong police officers stumbled onto the cybersex den as they were chasing a suspected snatcher, who darted into an apartment along Arayat street in Barangay Malamig Monday morning.
Following the suspect into the house, the pursuing lawmen were surprised to see a naked woman – later identified as Jocelyn Bilon – in a “scandalous” position in front of a computer, according to city police chief Superintendent Carlos de Sagun.
The lawmen proceeded to arrest alleged den operator Mercidita Roncales and alleged cybersex workers Bilon, Hazel Santos, Evangeline Bandojo, Irish Ann Coo, Perlita Palisok and Josephine Jacob.
“The operator (transacts) with foreign customers, mostly Canadians, and charging customers per minute,” De Sagun said.
The police confiscated four computers and beds.
Just before midnight Monday, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) raided a trading company in Las Piñas that was also reportedly used as a cybersex den.
The NBI said their agents arrested 19 “chatters,” most of whom are homosexual men who pose nude in front of a web camera for paying customers, and brought them to the NBI Field Operations Division office for proper identification.
The NBI said it found that the Seonix International Trading Corp., which has an office in Reyes Building on Alabang-Zapote Road in Las Piñas, was indeed engaged in cybersex and Internet pornography.
The NBI seized 36 computers and will file charges against Korean nationals Seo Ki Yeoul and Jang Moon Young and Filipinos Noralyn Rivera, Rowena Orejola, Juanita Lacap, a certain “Ruel Mar” and “Rona” for violating the electronic commerce law. – Rainier Allan Ronda, Sandy Araneta