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BUREAU of Immigration (BI) officers at Clark International Airport (CIA) on All Souls\u2019 Day intercepted a female trafficking victim instructed to pose as a babysitter traveling with her employer.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to BI, the 29-year-old victim, whose identity remains confidential in compliance with the Anti-Trafficking Laws, attempted to depart for Malaysia via a Cebu Pacific Airlines flight, with a married couple and their child.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n She claimed that the couple were her employers, and she is working as a nanny for their three-month old daughter.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n However, immigration officers noted numerous inconsistencies in their statements, prompting a secondary inspection.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe trafficker and the victim provided differing answers regarding basic details about their relationship, leading to highly conflicting responses,\u201d said BI Commissioner Joel Anthony Viado.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The victim eventually admitted that she actually met her recruiter, her female companion, via Facebook, where she was offered a surrogacy opportunity in Malaysia.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Further investigation revealed that the recruiter was supposed to arrange the departure of three passengers that day, all headed to Malaysia to become gestational surrogates, but only one pushed through.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The victim allegedly inquired online about becoming a surrogate mother in Malaysia via IVF.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The woman said she did not want to continue being a surrogate mother, and wishes to apply to be a nanny instead.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cIt appears that the trafficker aimed to obscure the illegal surrogacy by implementing the \u2018Bitbit\u2019 scheme, creating the illusion of a close relationship with the victim to facilitate her departure,\u201d said Viado.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s disappointing to hear that this trafficker even used her family to conceal the scheme,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The BI referred the woman to the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) for assistance.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The trafficker may face charges for violating the Expanded Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2022, the BI said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BUREAU of Immigration (BI) officers at Clark International Airport (CIA) on All Souls’ Day intercepted a female trafficking victim instructed to pose as a babysitter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9888,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9886\/revisions\/9888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}