American pedophile arrested at NAIA
Credit to Author: BENJIE VERGARA, TMT| Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 03:49:17 +0000
A suspected American pedophile was arrested at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) on Monday while meeting a female minor he befriended on Facebook.
Police authorities arrested Piotr Kmita, 43, in an entrapment operation shortly after he arrived in Manila via China Eastern Airlines flight from Pudong, China.
Immigration (BI) Port Operations Division chief Grifton Medina said Kmita violated Republic Act 10364 or the expanded anti-trafficking in persons act which penalizes the act of “procuring a child for prostitution and obtaining a person for the purpose of prostitution, pornography or sexual exploitation.”
The suspect was subsequently turned over to the custody of the Philipine National Police’s women and children protection center in Pampanga where the rescued girl lives, Medina said.
Bienvenido Castillo, who heads the Border Control and Intelligence Unit of the Bureau of Immigration-Ninoy Aquino International Airport ( BI-NAIA), said that US government’s Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) sought the Philippines’ assistance in monitoring the American pedophile “after he was discovered to have engaged in sexually explicit conversations with his young victim that he befriended online through Facebook.”
Castillo said the HSI then relayed the information to the PNP regional office in Pampanga, and “we jointly conducted the operations to intercept Kmita upon his arrival in Manila.”
Castillo reported that the arresting agents tailed Kmita from the moment he arrived up to the area outside the airport where he met his victim.
BI commissioner Jaime Morente commended the efforts of the officers in ensuring the successful apprehension of the foreign pedophile.
“Different agencies should work together to successfully weed out undesirables like him (Kmita),” Morente said, adding, “his presence here poses a serious threat to our women and children. Thanks to the vigilance and cooperation of our law enforcement agencies, as well as to the HSI for giving us information that lead to this pedophile’s arrest.”
Morente said Kmita’s deportation will have to wait until the criminal charges against him are resolved, adding that, if convicted, the alien will have to serve his sentence first before he could be sent back to the US.
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