Police rescue girl advertised on 'sex for a fee' website

MANILA, Philippines - Police rescued yesterday morning an 18-year-old girl who was being advertised by her sister as a “willing sex partner for a fee” through the Internet in an entrapment operation inside a mall in Sta. Cruz, Manila.

A male browser reported to Sta. Cruz police station chief Superintendent Nelson Yabut that he discovered the advertisement of the girl with her photos through the overdose.ph account as an 18-year-old virgin willing to have sex for P20,000. When he contacted the girl through the cellular phone in her resume’, he said it was the girl’s elder sister he had talked to and who facilitated their “eyeball.”

Armed with P20,000 marked money, an undercover policeman acted as the interested customer and met with the two sisters at a fastfood court in a mall in Sta. Cruz wherein Yabut and his men posted nearby.

After a brief introduction, the elder sister, identified as Aleli Gutierrez, 24, received the marked money and was about to leave her sister when the cops pounced in.

During interrogation, Aleli said she was a regular model in overdose.ph and pinoypsp.org, two Internet sites offering sex services for a fee. She said she got her clients from males who visited the two sites.

She admitted posting her younger sister’s profile at the overdose.ph due to financial problem. “I told my sister her problem will be solved since the site’s male visitors are mostly professional and rich men,” Aleli told The STAR. “I was not wrong since just three days after posting my sister’s photos and profile she had already received a lot of calls.”

The girl said she did not pose for the site but her photos were lifted from her facebook account which was furnished by her sister to the moderator.

Yabut said charges of sex trafficking will be charged against Aleli, while her sister will be turned over to welfare authorities for counseling. Yabut is also tracing the whereabouts of the Internet sites’ moderators as conspirators in the trafficking of women for sex.