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00:00Sandro Mulac faced the Senate hearing and denied the sexual harassment committed by Jojo Nones and Richard Cruz.
00:09Nones was detained in the Senate after being condemned in the middle of the hearing.
00:14Ma'am Gonzales has the first news.
00:19Through a video conference, Sandro Mulac faced the Senate hearing
00:24about the allegations of sexual harassment in the media industry.
00:27He said that after their text exchange, he complained about the independent contractor of GMA Network, Jojo Nones,
00:34he went to his room in a hotel in Pasay on the early day of July 21.
00:40When he arrived at the room, Sandro caught Nones,
00:43along with another complainant, Richard Cruz.
00:46Cruz was drunk and lying in bed.
00:49Nones gave Sandro a glass of wine.
00:51When asked what happened next, Sandro hesitated to answer.
00:56What else did he offer you?
00:58I don't know if I can say the whole details because it's really sensitive.
01:03Go ahead, say it.
01:06Your Honor, with all due respect, as I mentioned to Senator Padilla,
01:13the other party is not accepting the...
01:15Oh, you want to have it in an executive session?
01:18If we don't finish this, this will go on for a long time.
01:23You're wasting our time here.
01:25Are you going to talk or not?
01:27If not, I will leave.
01:29Sandro also held an executive session with the senators.
01:34After this, he was the one who detailed what happened next.
01:38According to Sandro, Nones was charged with something.
01:42I will charge you 500 pesos bill.
01:45Jojo ordered you to be charged. Is that what you call it?
01:50Yes, Your Honor.
01:52How many times did you say you were drunk?
02:01About three times, Your Honor.
02:03You kept drinking wine?
02:05Yes.
02:06Until you got drunk?
02:07Yes.
02:08Were you weak?
02:09Yes, Your Honor.
02:11When these two noticed you, what did you feel?
02:16Were you high?
02:18Were you weak?
02:21I was drunk, Your Honor.
02:23You lied down in the bed, am I correct?
02:25I did not lie down. I was pulled from the bed.
02:29Who pulled you from the bed?
02:31Jojo Nones.
02:33Sandro refused to detail what happened, but Nones told him something.
02:38Is it true? Based on my investigation, Jojo Nones told you?
02:44What happened here stays here?
02:47Yes, Your Honor.
02:48Who told you that?
02:50Jojo Nones, Your Honor.
02:52You were sexually harassed?
02:54Correct?
02:57Yes, Your Honor.
03:00Nones and Cruz denied what Sandro said.
03:04You deny?
03:07Yes, Your Honor. We deny allegations.
03:10What did you do to the child?
03:13We did nothing wrong to Sandro, Your Honor.
03:16What did you do?
03:18He was there.
03:19We did nothing, Your Honor.
03:20Really?
03:21We talked, we played music, we socialized, Your Honor.
03:24Your Honor, that is not true.
03:28You did not pity the child?
03:30Your Honor, with all due respect, please do not judge us.
03:33We are not yet convicted in the case.
03:36No, but you're lying.
03:37The case has just been filed.
03:38We are not lying to you, Your Honor.
03:39Why are you judging? You're lying.
03:40We're also just defending our side.
03:45Nones and Cruz also denied that they have made donations
03:48to a charitable institution to be chosen by the Mulac family.
03:51Senate President Pro Tempore, Jingoy Estrada,
03:54was alarmed because this is a violation of the victim's affidavit
03:58as well as the witness, GMA Senior Vice President Atty. Annette Gozon Valdez.
04:02That is why the Senate Committee on Public Information and Mass Media
04:05has already condemned him.
04:07I move that he be cited in contempt.
04:09There is a motion to cite Mr. Jojo Nones in contempt.
04:15Without any objection, the motion is approved, so ordered.
04:21Because of this, Nones was detained by the Senate.
04:25Gerald Santos, a singer, was also cried when he heard
04:28that he was also a victim of rape in 2005.
04:31I was raped.
04:33You were raped?
04:34I was raped, Your Honor.
04:36The musical director?
04:38Yes.
04:39I was only 15 years old at that time, Your Honor.
04:43I don't have a strong heart.
04:46When the abuse happened to me, I don't have a strong heart.
04:53I was just a contestant at that time.
04:55He has power over us, over me.
05:00That's why I couldn't say it right away.
05:04Gerald filed a case in the GMA Network five years after the incident.
05:09Based on the document held by Estrada,
05:11the musical director was suspended and dismissed by the GMA.
05:15But Gerald said that he felt that his career was already affected.
05:20This musical director is connected to other executives inside.
05:27I was heated inside.
05:33Even though he was dismissed, I was also dismissed from the network.
05:39In the end, Gerald was released from the GMA Artist Center
05:42and moved to another network.
05:44The GMA Network assured that it never covered up sexual harassment in the company.
05:49The investigation of Sandro's case continues
05:52and the two accused are under preventive suspension.
05:55GMA has had a policy against sexual harassment.
05:58And we have been strict about it.
06:00Again, we have never covered up any incident of sexual harassment.
06:04If they say that the department is not acting on it,
06:08they can go directly to legal, to HR, or to the office of the president.
06:12So there are different avenues, Mr. Chair.
06:14We do not encourage any form of cover-up.
06:18In fact, if there is someone that is covering up the matter,
06:21we also file an administrative case against them.
06:25The GMA Network opposes all kinds of abuse.
06:29In one statement, the GMA said that it does not allow any kind of abuse
06:34to artists, personalities, employees, independent contractors, and other stakeholders.
06:40The action of the network was followed
06:43after the formal complaint of Gerald Santos was received in 2010.
06:47The investigation was immediately carried out
06:49and after that, the network immediately implemented the punishment for the accusation.
06:54The GMA terminated the accusation contract
06:57and did not take it back or give a job after that.
07:01But the formal complaint that Gerald filed in 2010
07:05was different from the accusation of rape that he mentioned in the Senate.
07:08It was only now that the GMA knew about this matter.
07:12The GMA also wanted to clarify the statement of Gerald that he was removed from the network.
07:17He was the one who asked for the early release from his management contract in 2010
07:21that was given by the GMA.
07:23At the same time, he immediately went out to other TV networks
07:26In addition to this, Gerald also tried to return to the GMA after his TV5 contract in 2013.
07:32This is the first news.
07:34Mav Gonzalez for GMA Integrated News.
07:56Thanks for watching.