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Court of Appeals (File photo) MANILA - The Court of Appeals (CA) has upheld the life imprisonment imposed by an Angeles City court on two women found guilty of repeatedly peddling a pre-teen to foreigners in 2013. Marife Villaflores and Joan Simbillo were found guilty of child trafficking by the Angeles City Regional Trial Court (Branch 61) in 2018, a decision upheld in a 19-page decision dated October 11 by CA Associate Justice Ramon Cruz. Villaflores was found guilty of four counts of qualified child trafficking and meted out fines of not less than PHP2 million and exemplary and moral damages of PHP200,000 for each of the four charges. Simbillo was similarly guilty for two counts and incurred the same penalties and fines. "Human beings are not chattels whose sexual favors are bought or sold by greedy pimps. Those who profit in this way by recruiting minors are rightfully, by law, labeled as criminals. They should be the subject of aggressive law enforcement, prosecuted, tried, a