CASE BUILD UP Another alleged rape victim surfaces vs PCG personnel

By MAYA M. PADILLO

Another rape victim in Davao City turned herself in to the NBI Southeastern Mindanao Regional Office (NBI-SEMRO), Thursday morning.

The 23-year-old victim, a freelance model, complained to NBI-SEMRO that she was also raped by the Philippine Coast Guard personnel Khalid Abdullah, who is also the subject of a rape complaint of a 21-year-old model on Monday.

Arcelito Albao, regional director of NBI-SEMRO, told Edge

Davao that the respondent introduced himself as a general of the coast guard in the Davao Region.

“He introduced himself as the head and general of the coast guard here in Davao,” he said.

PH a hotspot of illegal trade in giant clams in Southeast Asia, says report

The Philippines emerged as a hotspot in Southeast Asia in the illegal giant clam trade in the past 20 years, the Trade Records Analysis of Flora and Fauna in Commerce (Traffic), a wildlife monitoring network, said in an assessment released Wednesday, April 26.

Wong, senior wildlife crime analyst and co-author, as saying.

The assessment, however, admitted that little is known about the global trafficking of giant clams, the world’s largest bivalve mollusks.

violation of firearms law after allegedly raping a model on April 18, 2023.

The victim alias “Jane” shared with the media that she was raped by Abdullah twice, first inside his vehicle and then in an inn an hour after.

Abdullah was arrested by NBI-SEMRO outside a commercial establishment in Doña Vicenta Village, Bajada, Davao City on April 22, 2023.

On Monday, Abdullah was charged with rape and violation of Republic Act 9208 or Anti-Trafficking-In-Persons-Act and FCASE, P10