The House quad committee orders Cassandra Ong be sent to the Correctional Institute for Women in Mandaluyong for 30 days starting September 26.
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00:00A House Quad Committee orders Cassandra Ong to be sent to the Correctional Institute for
00:05Women in Mandaluyong for 30 days.
00:07Ong was detained at the House for contempt, but on Thursday, September 19, agitated lawmakers
00:12decided to commit her to the CIW starting September 26.
00:16The trigger, lawyer Ferdinand Topacio, said his client would rather be incorrectional
00:20than be humiliated by the committee.
00:22But Ong explains it was a statement she made to Topacio under stress.
00:26While there is no arrest warrant issued by a court for Ong, she faces criminal investigations
00:30for human trafficking and money laundering.
00:32Ong is an officer of the Whirlwind real estate firm that leased its compound to Lucky South
00:3799, a pogo rated over allegations of human trafficking and torture.
00:41Ong appears in many documents as the Lucky South representative, but the 24-year-old
00:45maintains she was merely a lesser.