Mga manggagawa, diumano pinapagamit ng ilegal na droga sa trabaho?! | Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho
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Mahigit 100 biktima kabilang ang mga menor de edad, na-recruit bilang manggagawa sa isang isla ng Sulu sa Mindanao at sapilitan pa raw pinapagamit ng droga para raw ganahang magtrabaho?!
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Mahigit 100 biktima kabilang ang mga menor de edad, na-recruit bilang manggagawa sa isang isla ng Sulu sa Mindanao at sapilitan pa raw pinapagamit ng droga para raw ganahang magtrabaho?!
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00:00 Human trafficking.
00:02 In simple words,
00:04 it's human trafficking.
00:07 And there are more and more cases of this now,
00:10 where some have been forced to work
00:15 and even use drugs.
00:18 To our fellow countrymen in the provinces,
00:22 are there any of you who are recruiting
00:26 and allocating money?
00:28 I will give you a lot of money.
00:30 And are you promising a good job?
00:33 Just be careful, because this is a dangerous trap.
00:38 Where? In the far east of the Philippines,
00:42 on the island of Sulu,
00:44 the workers who are being recruited
00:46 are not being offered coffee or energy drinks
00:50 to be able to work.
00:55 But they are being forced to use drugs.
01:00 We are being forced to work.
01:02 If you work, you will get a good salary.
01:06 You will get a good salary.
01:08 This news is not a good item.
01:12 Because the head of this is a big syndicate
01:17 that has more than 100 workers,
01:21 including 20 minors, who are like prisoners.
01:26 These kids are working, selling drugs.
01:29 They are being forced to use syringes and woods.
01:32 They don't want to work.
01:34 If they work, they will be forced to work.
01:37 If you are almost at the end of the Philippines,
01:41 who will you ask for money?
01:45 [dramatic music]
01:48 In 2014, this syndicate recruited Jenny Rose
01:57 from the town of Alicia in Zamboanga, Cebu.
02:00 Their story is that they recruited them early.
02:04 They were already working at that time.
02:06 They were like prisoners.
02:07 Who is not to be deceived?
02:10 If you are not yet starting a job,
02:13 Jenny Rose will be 15 mil.
02:16 We don't have a boat or a machine.
02:18 I don't know how to swim.
02:20 That's why Jenny Rose and her family
02:24 were brought to a faraway island of Tubalubak in Sulu.
02:29 It's 10 hours away by boat from Zamboanga City.
02:33 Life on the island is peaceful.
02:37 Life, fishing and fishing.
02:41 There is no police there, no municipality, no barangay.
02:44 They are the government here.
02:46 But what Jenny Rose is expecting is different from what they have experienced.
02:51 The children here are working in the fields.
02:54 They are forced to work in the fields.
02:57 They don't want to work.
02:59 If they work here, they will be forced to work in their next house.
03:03 They are not even paid.
03:06 They need to pay their mom.
03:08 They don't have money to pay their mom.
03:11 They need to pay their mom.
03:13 Jenny Rose's daughter,
03:15 Sofia, who is only 10 years old, was forced to work.
03:19 I was forced to work here because I worked.
03:22 I fished, I washed the fish.
03:25 I also fished.
03:26 I wanted to work because they would have me fired.
03:29 Sofia was forced to work on the island where her husband, Junel, was living.
03:36 When we joined, they gave us P30,000.
03:38 I thought I would have a good life, but it was not.
03:41 From 4 in the afternoon to 5 in the early morning,
03:46 they are forced to fish in the sea.
03:49 But instead of money, they are paid for their services.
03:54 Rice.
03:56 None, not even a peso.
03:57 If you don't catch anything, you're done.
03:59 We don't catch anything.
04:01 We are shot.
04:03 It's very hard.
04:04 If we fight, we are all dead.
04:06 So to be smart at work,
04:08 because they have been working for hours,
04:10 their boss forces them to use drugs.
04:15 We are forced to work.
04:17 All the fishermen use drugs.
04:19 If you don't catch anything, you can't sleep.
04:21 There is a supplier from the island.
04:23 Our boss is the one who gets it.
04:25 When you work, you catch fish.
04:29 What you bring is the fish.
04:31 You catch it, you can't sleep.
04:34 If you catch it, you're dead.
04:36 Illegal drugs have many bad effects on the human body.
04:40 It damages the liver, our kidneys,
04:42 the heart grows, the brain,
04:44 they have a state of confusion,
04:46 they lose themselves.
04:48 Many people are like that,
04:50 according to the Shabu.
04:51 We don't have any hard luck here,
04:53 because there is no fish here.
04:54 What they call a boss,
04:56 they call a partner.
04:58 They call us God.
04:59 They have a boat,
05:00 when they escape, they have a chase.
05:02 Even if they call us, we can't call them.
05:04 We have to report.
05:05 We are like a fish.
05:06 My only son died,
05:08 we have to go to the hospital.
05:10 They don't answer.
05:11 I'm afraid because we are on the island.
05:14 If we leave, we will drown in the sea.
05:17 In 2018,
05:19 Gini Rose had the opportunity to go out of the island
05:22 when she was allowed to cross the Zamboanga
05:25 to bring her sick son
05:28 on condition that she will leave her son
05:32 on Tubalubac Island.
05:34 The story is that we were going to buy
05:37 our son Sofia.
05:39 There was no case,
05:40 we didn't come back.
05:41 I almost died there.
05:42 I wanted to go out because they caught me.
05:45 I didn't let them go out
05:49 because they were afraid that I would get caught by the soldiers.
05:52 I covered them.
05:53 I was able to escape but I was hurt.
05:55 Until just last month,
05:57 one of their companions, James,
06:00 ran away.
06:02 He was on a boat for 7 hours
06:06 to go to Jolo
06:07 where he died.
06:09 We heard from our chief that we will live there.
06:12 I said let's leave here
06:13 because we might die here.
06:15 The PNP Zamboanga
06:17 along with other agencies
06:19 immediately carried out an operation on the island.
06:21 They rescued more than 100 victims
06:25 of human trafficking.
06:27 It was hard considering that the area is so far.
06:30 You can see that the situation is really
06:32 a fisherfolk's,
06:33 poor,
06:34 hostage forced labor.
06:36 They also found in the house of the primary suspect
06:39 10 grams of shabu,
06:41 ingredients for making explosives
06:44 and weapons.
06:47 But before they arrived on the island,
06:49 the mastermind, James,
06:52 was the first to escape.
06:56 We were unable to catch them.
06:57 But with the help of our fisherfolks,
07:00 we were able to identify them
07:01 and file a case against them.
07:03 Considering that 123 victims
07:06 were qualified trafficking in persons,
07:08 the penalty is life imprisonment
07:11 and a fine of not less than 2 million pesos.
07:14 For the victims,
07:16 we were unable to catch them.
07:18 They were not used as volunteers.
07:20 They were just forced to do so.
07:21 They were already home.
07:23 This is also the livelihood.
07:24 What we consider the most in the assistance
07:27 that we give to them
07:28 is to find out the reasons
07:30 why they left the place.
07:32 Ginny Rose
07:33 saw her daughter, Sofia, again.
07:36 Their whole family also returned home
07:38 to Zamboanga.
07:40 I am thankful to God
07:41 that my whole family returned home.
07:43 There are still people left in the area,
07:45 but then we don't know
07:46 where they are.
07:48 It's very hard to identify them
07:49 since there are many islets.
07:50 The local government of Alisha
07:52 promised to file a case
07:54 against Ginny Rose's family
07:56 so that they can start again.
07:58 We will assist them with their skills
08:00 so that they can fit in
08:01 the starter's kit that we will give them.
08:03 It's worth 30,000 pesos.
08:05 We can also prepare a counseling session
08:09 so that we can boost the morale of one victim.
08:12 If the recruiter says,
08:13 even if you are not interviewed,
08:15 you are already in,
08:16 an applicant should be doubtful
08:18 because no good employer
08:21 can hire a worker
08:24 if they do not go through the selection process.
08:26 If someone comes,
08:28 I hope they will not join us.
08:29 We will just live here in our area
08:31 so that nothing bad will happen to us.
08:33 Even if we are given millions,
08:35 we will not go there.
08:36 They are hoping that
08:39 10 to 100 more victims
08:42 of human trafficking
08:43 and abuse
08:45 will be the start
08:47 of their new life
08:49 and the use of their talents
08:52 in the great work that they have done.
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