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Transcript
00:00Arrested in a separate operation in Rizal, the two men accused of molesting two minors, the two men who are both guardians of the victims, were denied the accusation.
00:11EJ Gomez has the first news.
00:16Inside his house in Barangay Pinugay, Baras, Rizal, the police cornered this 57-year-old man who is accused of molesting an 11-year-old victim.
00:30According to the police, the man was arrested as a guardian of the child before his mother left to work abroad.
00:45The accused is a family friend.
00:49The incident of molesting the victim happened twice.
00:55It happened in 2023, May and July.
00:59The crime was reported last 2024, June 2024.
01:08The accused denied the molestation.
01:12He was taken care of as if the two children were his own children.
01:17I didn't touch the child.
01:19I was not at home.
01:24I was at work.
01:26I forced them to have children because I felt sorry for them.
01:29I was the one who talked to the mother.
01:31There was no way for them to have children.
01:36Based on the investigation, the victim did not immediately report to his parents because of the fear of the accused that he would be released.
01:44Last March, the arrest warrant was issued for the accused.
01:47He was charged with statutory rape and rape by sexual assault.
01:52In Barangay San Isidro, Angono, Rizal, the police also arrested the 63-year-old accused of molesting a 10-year-old woman.
02:00The accused is a guardian of the child and is considered his grandfather.
02:05The accused started molesting the 10-year-old woman in 2019.
02:15In 2022, there was a forceful molestation of the victim.
02:22According to the accused, Alias Joel, the victim went to his caretaker for four years.
02:28He said that he only kissed her on the cheek, not on the cheek and on the forehead.
02:34It's not true that I touched her on the forehead.
02:37I only kissed her on the cheek.
02:41I only pissed her off by looking at her cellphone.
02:44It's not true.
02:46It's not a hoax.
02:47This victim was told by his class advisor in 2022.
02:53His class advisor told his stepmother.
02:59That's when the crime was reported.
03:02Last April 11, the arrest warrant was issued for the accused in the case of statutory rape.
03:09This is the first news.
03:11EJ Gomez for GMA Integrated News.

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