ANOTHER 'PEDOPHILE' ON THE LOOSE

Authorities on the lookout for a woman after they caught Australian pedophile Peter Scully's former live-in partner

The search for the other cohorts of Peter Scully, who once maintained an international pedophile network in the country, continues.

Atty. Janet Francisco, head of the National Bureau of Investigation-Anti Human Trafficking Division (NBI-AHTRAD), said that they are still tracking down another woman after they caught Liezyl Margallo in Malapascua Island last Wednesday.

"May isa pa (There's one more)," she said.

Francisco said the other woman will also be highly mobile and probably changed her name like Margallo.

Margallo was transported yesterday morning by the NBI 7 to the Regional Trial Court Branch 12 of Cagayan de Oro to face the 16 criminal charges.

These include qualified trafficking in persons for violating Republic Act (RA) 9995, or the act that penalizes the crime of photo and voyeurism; RA 7610, the Anti-Child Abuse Law in relation to RA 10175, the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.

Margallo was the woman who sexually abused 18-month-old Daisy in a brutal video "Daisy's Destruction," which spread in the internet, sparking an organized search for Scully, an Australian national, and Margallo, a native of Cagayan De Oro.

Scully was arrested in 2015 in Malaybalay City, Bukidnon.

He is facing 69 criminal cases in the Philippine court.

As head of the The NBIAHTRAD, Francisco handles cases involving sexual abuses of children and women.

"The parents who do these things to their own child are not afraid of God," she said.

Her division conducts regular information dissemination to children in public and private schools to prevent them from falling prey to online molesters.

Twenty persons have already been convicted by the NBIAHTRAD for similar charges.

Francisco said that there are still many cybertraffickers in Cordova, Cebu and they are tracking them one by one.

"This is one of the hotspots for child traffickers,"she said.

The public is encouraged to report to authorities any suspicious-looking foreigners who are with children or minors who are not their own.

"We have to be aware that it isn't right and you should report it to the police," she said.