Women who claimed to be survivors of Typhoon Yolanda and the Bohol quake were nabbed at a KTV bar named after the source of another natural disaster. Can it get any more ironic than this?
“At around 2am on Wednesday, June 18, agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) raided Volcano KTV Bar on Taft Ave. Extension in Pasay City, which is an alleged prostitution den, and rescued 19 women, most of them recruited from calamity-stricken areas in the Visayas,” reports Leonardo D. Postrado in Tempo.
Initially, the NBI-Anti Human Trafficking Division had gotten reports that the KTV bar employed minors. However, instead of minors, the NBI found out that “most of the women were recruited from Bohol, Samar, and Leyte, provinces that were hit by a massive earthquake and Typhoon Yolanda.”
The report said the rescued women will temporarily be housed in the NBI headquarters in Manila.
