'It was like a game to them,' says a former Socorro Bayanihan Services Incorporated member, adding that SBSI leaders use common-law marriages with minors to entice more members
A single precinct hosts 2,223 Socorro Bayanihan Services Incorporated (SBSI) voters, almost 13% of the town's 17,385 registered voters in the May 2022 polls
Before news broke out of child marriages and exploitation being conducted by leaders of the Socorro Bayanihan Services, the group was known as a civic organization