“Lahat po tayo may karapatan sa relihiyosong paniniwala, pero kailanman hindi ito katwiran sa lantarang pang-abuso sa kapwa lalo na ng mga kabataan at kababaihan.”
‘Yan ang mensaheng iniwan ni Senadora Risa Hontiveros sa pagtatapos ng unang pagdinig ng Senado ukol kay Pastor Apollo Quiboloy.
Pinasalamatan din ni Hontiveros ang mga tumestigo sa mga alegasyon ng pang-aabuso na kinasasangkutan ni Quiboloy sa nasabing pagdinig.
‘Yan ang mensaheng iniwan ni Senadora Risa Hontiveros sa pagtatapos ng unang pagdinig ng Senado ukol kay Pastor Apollo Quiboloy.
Pinasalamatan din ni Hontiveros ang mga tumestigo sa mga alegasyon ng pang-aabuso na kinasasangkutan ni Quiboloy sa nasabing pagdinig.
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00:00Dear colleagues, we started this investigation because of the few victim-survivors who came to our office.
00:11Many of them came to my office after they were able to watch our Senate inquiry on Sen. Aguila,
00:20the late reincarnation of St. Nino.
00:24It was as if they had the same way of brainwashing, abusing, and exploiting St. Nino,
00:33the late appointed son of God.
00:36After a long story of escaping and hiding from the law,
00:42in the end, St. Nino faced the Senate.
00:47Our fight was not easy.
00:51Our witnesses were threatened.
00:53There was a rally outside the Senate whenever there was a hearing here.
00:58We were accused.
01:00There were different conditions for them not to face us.
01:04There was an effort to reverse the ruling of the chair to cite him in contempt before.
01:10And now, we've heard in this hearing that your camp threatened our victim-survivors,
01:18our witnesses, and indirectly threatened myself and my staff.
01:24But not all of us agreed.
01:28Because we do not come from a sound mind,
01:32especially in an organization where there are not millions, but thousands of members.
01:40So, human scale.
01:42Big or small, this is clear.
01:46Kiboloy presided over a malicious and systematic subversion of personal will, autonomy, and dignity
01:55to make his victims participants in their own abuse, psychological, sexual, physical, and economic.
02:05They presented themselves as God, and He gradually conquered the minds and bodies of His victims.
02:14He used their desire to be good to make them suffer terrible evil.
02:23He tried to destroy their humanity and play with the pieces, but He did not succeed.
02:34Our brave witnesses, victim-survivors, are a testament to that.
02:39You may have taken control of their bodies, but the human soul is made of much stronger stuff.
02:49The courage of our witnesses, our victim-survivors, is stronger than the divinity you claim.
02:58To Elias Amanda, shout-out specially to you.
03:03I hope you can hear this.
03:05To Arlene Stone, who did not sleep and was not tired.
03:10Another shout-out to you.
03:12To all of you in the US and Canada.
03:16I know you are still awake.
03:19Long live to you.
03:21All of us have the right to religious belief.
03:28But this is never justified in the name of abusing others, especially young people and women.
03:38In the many painful hearings of the Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations, and Gender Equality,
03:45we tried to shed light on these base and unique evils.
03:51Now, we will try our best to ensure that our country's laws and policies leave no room for Kiboloi's inhumane and ungodly liturgies.
04:04It has not been a pleasure chairing these hearings,
04:08but it will always be the honor of my team in the office and our Senate Committee
04:15to provide a platform for victim-survivors of human trafficking and to shepherd laws that will protect them even more.
04:26To Amanda, Arlene, Dindo, Jocelyn, Edward, Joar, Elias Marie,
04:39to our former witnesses, Elias Rene and Elias David,
04:45of course to Julia and our friends in Ukraine,
04:48and of course to Sister Ging-Ging,
04:51to all of you.
04:56Amplifying your voices and the voices of all victims of human trafficking and violence
05:03is our lives' honor.
05:07Always, always, for our country.
05:11This hearing is adjourned.