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shadowspring2,

I am sorry if I have mislead anyone here. I am not an MK, nor have I ever been. My fiancee is that girl, a victim of Les Emory in Aritao, and NTM ever since.

We suffer too mahalko, watching the ones we love still hurting from all they endured.

I send my love and concern to your fiancee. May God bring healing into her heart and life every day by whatever means. My sympathy is for her and all who love her, and all others who also suffered.

Excerts from the USA Dept of State 2010 Human Rights Report: Philippines;

website = http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/eap/154399.htm

"The law provides that cases should be resolved within set time limits once submitted for decision: 24 months for the Supreme Court; 12 months for a court of appeals; and three months for lower courts. However, these time limits were not mandatory and were not respected in practice. In effect, there were no time limits for trials. Government officials estimated that it takes an average of five to 10 years to obtain a conviction and that the national conviction rate was 20 percent."

"Rape, including spousal rape, is illegal, but enforcement was ineffective."

"Child abuse remained a problem. From January to June, DSWD offices served 4,451 victims of child abuse, of whom 66 percent were girls. Approximately 44 percent of the girls were victims of sexual abuse, while 2 percent were victims of sexual exploitation. Some children also were victims of police abuse while in detention for committing minor crimes. Several cities ran crisis centers for abused women and children. Foreign pedophiles exploited children, and the government continued its efforts to prosecute accused pedophiles and deport foreign pedophiles."

Merely being deported is getting off easy.

Yes, that's not much of a consequence. I am not sure, but I THINK what Outside Insider is pointing out here is that when an expatriate pedophile is caught in the Philippines, what that government considers an appropriate penalty is for that foreigner to be deported. In other words, given a free pass back to his home country.

Since NTM has never, to my knowledge, turned a missionary child molester in to local law enforcement overseas, we cannot know for sure what the host country's response might be. But judging by this report, it is possible that the only thing that might happen could be that the offender would be "banished" from that country.

Not a satisfactory outcome, in my opinion. Just as frustrating as the response NTM itself has had in the past.

But it does put the lie to the fear of execution after an unfair trial, biased against foreigners. I have heard that as an excuse for not reporting to local authorities before.