Sen. Risa Hontiveros on Thursday accused leaders of Socorro Bayanihan Services, Inc., of rape, human trafficking and perpetrating child marriages.
Watch more on iWantTFC Rape, human trafficking, made to swim in human feces. These and more are just some of the allegations leveled by Sen. Risa Hontiveros against leaders of the group, Socorro Bayanihan Services, Inc., which she labeled a cult that practices child marriage.
Hontiveros said some SBSI members were told to drop out of school, wear the same haircut and have their cellphones buried underground. Some of the members she interviewed told of various abusive practices including being ordered to swim in a pit full of urine and feces for breaking SBSI rules. The senator said some members as young as 12 years old were forced to enter into child marriages by the group's leader. A check with the local civil registrar, however, reveals no record of the marriage, as well as birth and death records of members of the SBSI. This is because the cult's government, the Nueva Jerusalem Esperanza Ministry Government, issues its own birth, death and marriage certificates, she said.
The Department of Justice earlier said members of SBSI migrated to the mountains of Sitio Kapihan in Brgy. N. Sering, Socorro, Surigao del Norte following an earthquake.
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