American trader nabbed for ‘cybersex’ operations
Published in the Philippine Star
March 17, 2003
ANGELES CITY — Police arrested
an American businessman here last Saturday after a search of his Internet
café showed that 19 of his "chat ladies," two of them minors, were made to
engage in "cybersex."
Senior Superintendent Jimmy
Restua, city police chief, said he has informed the US embassy about the
arrest of American Richard Oterman, 50, who has resided at Flamingo Hotel
here.
The police are still tracking
down Oterman’s alleged business partner, Harold Glenn Mathews, and a certain
Urich.
Arrested with Osterman was
Jane Paguio, 24, a resident of St. Joseph’s Subdivision here.
Restua said the arresting
team, headed by Inspectors Erlinda Tullao and Ricardo Arriola, searched
Oterman’s DRE Internet café along Meliton street, near the Friendship
Highway in Barangay Anunas, on the strength of a warrant issued by Regional
Trial Court judge Ofelia Pinto.
The police officers found the
employment documents of the Internet café’s "chat girls," showing that two
of them are minors.
Upon scrutiny, the computer
servers yielded images of the "chat girls" in various naked poses.
All the girls gave testimonies
against the suspects before they were referred to social workers, Restua
said.
The Fields Avenue area is
still regarded as this city’s red light district for tourists, long after US
servicemen stationed at the former US Clark Air Base had made it their rest
and recreation hub. The Americans abandoned Clark in 1991.
There have been nagging reports that foreigners maintain Internet websites promoting Angeles City as a destination for foreign male tourists seeking "pleasure."
By Ding
Cervantes
