Published July 25, 2021, 12:55 PM
Supreme Court (SC)
The Supreme Court (SC) has affirmed the life imprisonment imposed on a karaoke bar owner who hired a 15-year-old girl in 2009 and coerced her to engage in prostitution in Camalig, Albay.
In a resolution promulgated last June 21 and posted on its website last July 15, affirmed by the SC were the rulings of the trial court and Court of Appeals (CA) which convicted Leny O. Brujas of qualified trafficking in persons under Republic Act No. 9208, the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003.
Aside from the prison term, Brujas was ordered to pay a fine of P2 million, and moral and exemplary damages of P600,000. She has been detained at the Correctional Institute for Women in Mandaluyong City.