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00:00This is the viral video of the PWD that was used to mislead a candidate. We will listen to Secretary Rex Gatchalian of the Department of Social Welfare and Development. Good morning Secretary.
00:13Igan, good morning. Good morning to all the viewers and listeners of your program. Thank you for having me.
00:19Secretary, have you decided who has the right to use a PWD in the campaign?
00:26The first thing we can say is, yesterday, we sent a fact-finding team to investigate this allegation. It was proven that the person in the video, the woman in the video,
00:38had an affair. We have enough evidence to prove that. Second, the incident happened according to her relatives and her own relatives.
00:51Third, we were also able to find out where the video was taken. We can say that the place is owned by a candidate.
01:03I don't want to disclose the following details because the family is discussing with each other to have a discussion with them.
01:12They haven't decided their position on whether to continue the complaint or not. I don't want to pre-empt what they will say to us today.
01:21Yesterday, we were with them. But before all of this, I want to assure the public that we should first look at the condition of the victim.
01:31Of course, she has a psychological trauma because she was raped, she was raped, she was raped by her neighbors.
01:38So if someone is mentally challenged or has a mental disability, there are more incidents. That's what we did first, financial assistance.
01:54Our social workers are assessing the psycho-emotional or psycho-social of her experiences.
02:00Yes. Was she forced or was her statement in the video?
02:06Yes. According to her testimony and according to the testimony of her relatives, she was forced and she was taught what to say.
02:17What happened is, she said she doesn't want to, but she was forced. So she was allowed.
02:22I don't know what I will say next. I don't know how to answer such questions.
02:27Anyway, we will teach her and she was taught. She was forced to answer.
02:32To be honest, her anguish, her mental and emotional anguish is the main issue.
02:39We should remember that she already has a mental disability. Now, she was forced.
02:45I cannot speak further about what will happen to her family.
02:50They are asking for time to pay attention. While they are paying attention to the investigation, her condition is a priority. That's our priority now.
03:03Yes. Can you answer if there's a financial exchange? Did she pay money to her mother?
03:08Actually nothing. According to their initial analysis, there's no money paid to them.
03:16But the reason why she went to that compound is because there's rice being given to the vloggers.
03:22But the rice was not given by the candidate, but it was taking place supposedly in an address or a headquarters of a known candidate in the area.
03:35If it can be proven that there's an exploitation in our country, PWD.
03:42There are cases being prepared against the candidate.
03:45I want to repeat three things that we are doing. First, we should take care of the victim. That's the priority.
03:54Second, we are working with the NBI Cybercrime Division to find out who uploaded the video.
04:01We are also working with Facebook to bring down the posts.
04:05Because there are many viewers. That's the request of the victim and her family. I hope we can bring it down.
04:14Third, we are working with them again because yesterday, they were reluctant. They don't want to raise the issue.
04:23As the mother said, we just want to move on and forget.
04:28Of course, we are ready to file a case against them because the law is RA 7610. It's a protection for the youth.
04:37Our countrymen who have mental disability, our treatment for them is child.
04:43This is also included in the violations of Magna Carta, which protects the rights of our countrymen.
04:51There are a lot of violations.
04:53But we are not sure if the family wants to pursue this.
04:57They were the ones who came from Laisay. But don't worry, I haven't spoken to them yet.
05:02We will go there again to get more details and to get their sentiments.
05:07Secretary Campaña, are you sure that they won't be exploited?
05:13Igan, it's in the guidelines. First, they can't go during the conduct of payouts.
05:19Second, their materials should not be inside the vicinity of the payouts.
05:24Third, we will disclose the recipients to the public.
05:27There are sufficient provisions in the new Joint Memo Circular that guides the use of ACAP.
05:34We are making sure that this won't be used for political gain of anyone.
05:38Don't use ACAP Igan, all programs of DSWD.
05:42Thank you very much DSWD Secretary Rex Gatchalian. Be careful.
05:45Thank you very much Igan.
05:54Thank you very much.