00:00Dear colleagues, we started this investigation because of the few victim-survivors who came to our office.
00:11Many of them came to my office after they were able to watch our Senate inquiry on Sen. Aguila,
00:20the late reincarnation of St. Nino.
00:24It was as if they had the same way of brainwashing, abusing, and exploiting St. Nino,
00:33the late appointed son of God.
00:36After a long story of escaping and hiding from the law,
00:42in the end, St. Nino faced the Senate.
00:47Our fight was not easy.
00:51Our witnesses were threatened.
00:53There was a rally outside the Senate whenever there was a hearing here.
00:58We were accused.
01:00There were different conditions for them not to face us.
01:04There was an effort to reverse the ruling of the chair to cite him in contempt before.
01:10And now, we've heard in this hearing that your camp threatened our victim-survivors,
01:18our witnesses, and indirectly threatened myself and my staff.
01:24But not all of us agreed.
01:28Because we do not come from a sound mind,
01:32especially in an organization where there are not millions, but thousands of members.
01:40So, human scale.
01:42Big or small, this is clear.
01:46Kiboloy presided over a malicious and systematic subversion of personal will, autonomy, and dignity
01:55to make his victims participants in their own abuse, psychological, sexual, physical, and economic.
02:05They presented themselves as God, and He gradually conquered the minds and bodies of His victims.
02:14He used their desire to be good to make them suffer terrible evil.
02:23He tried to destroy their humanity and play with the pieces, but He did not succeed.
02:34Our brave witnesses, victim-survivors, are a testament to that.
02:39You may have taken control of their bodies, but the human soul is made of much stronger stuff.
02:49The courage of our witnesses, our victim-survivors, is stronger than the divinity you claim.
02:58To Elias Amanda, shout-out specially to you.
03:03I hope you can hear this.
03:05To Arlene Stone, who did not sleep and was not tired.
03:10Another shout-out to you.
03:12To all of you in the US and Canada.
03:16I know you are still awake.
03:19Long live to you.
03:21All of us have the right to religious belief.
03:28But this is never justified in the name of abusing others, especially young people and women.
03:38In the many painful hearings of the Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations, and Gender Equality,
03:45we tried to shed light on these base and unique evils.
03:51Now, we will try our best to ensure that our country's laws and policies leave no room for Kiboloi's inhumane and ungodly liturgies.
04:04It has not been a pleasure chairing these hearings,
04:08but it will always be the honor of my team in the office and our Senate Committee
04:15to provide a platform for victim-survivors of human trafficking and to shepherd laws that will protect them even more.
04:26To Amanda, Arlene, Dindo, Jocelyn, Edward, Joar, Elias Marie,
04:39to our former witnesses, Elias Rene and Elias David,
04:45of course to Julia and our friends in Ukraine,
04:48and of course to Sister Ging-Ging,
04:51to all of you.
04:56Amplifying your voices and the voices of all victims of human trafficking and violence
05:03is our lives' honor.
05:07Always, always, for our country.
05:11This hearing is adjourned.
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