Fresh from getting slammed for his insensitive remarks about the 1989 rape and death of an Australian missionary, presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte is now reported to have ridiculed persons with disability (PWD) before an amused crowd in Aklan province.

Columnist Ellen Tordesillas in her article in another newspaper on Monday threw the book at Duterte, the mayor of Davao City, citing “a law that prohibits the ridicule, vilification, both verbal and non-verbal, against PWDs which can cause them to lose self-esteem.”

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