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THE Senate hearing on the Socorro Bayanihan Services Inc. (SBSI) revealed a riveting tale of alleged sexual, physical and psychological abuse perpetrated particularly against children by a cult led by Jey Rence Quilario, aka Senyor Agila. Based in the island municipality of Socorro in Surigao del Norte, SBSI has acquired enormous influence among a significant number of island residents, enough for them to turn their backs on their normal lives to join a community of believers that has nested in

the several hectares of protected area to which the Department of Environment and Natural Resources has granted them tenurial rights.Teachers, government workers and policemen left their posts, and entire families abandoned their homes to join others to live communally in what was referred to as the 'Kapihan.' The promise of salvation must have been so powerful that these people would surrender their choices and freedoms, even their wealth, to Senyor Agila.

Parents would tolerate their young daughters being offered for marriage to much older men, even as their young sons would be conscripted to train as part of the paramilitary force that practically behaves like Senyor Agila's private army. For a pudgy man so young, and would even appear hesitant and naïve under questioning by the senators, Quilario, aka Senyor Agila, did not appear as powerful as he was imaged. The optics did not simply match the myth around the man.

 

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