A foreign national, his Filipina wife and four other women were sentenced to life imprisonment and ordered pay the fine of P2 million each after they were found guilty of sex trafficking by the regional trial courts in Cebu and Marikina City.
The International Justice Mission (IJM) said Bogo City Regional Trial Court (in Cebu province) found Joseph Charles Leveque and his wife Hilda Leveque guilty for violating R.A. 9208 (Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003) after six minors were rescued from a videoke bar they owned in 2010.
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