Cybersex den operators get life

SAN FERNANDO, La Union, Philippines – An American and his Filipino wife were meted life imprisonment for operating a cybersex den here in 2004 and employing minors to pose naked before foreign customers.

Judge Victor Concepcion of the Regional Trial Court Branch 66 also ordered the convicts, Clifford Hackett of Colorado, USA, and his Filipina wife, Jacquiline Tendencia-Hackett, to pay a fine of P2 million.

The couple and three of their female employees, two of them minors, were caught during a police raid on Nov. 22, 2004 in a rented house at the Country Homes in Barangay Catbangen here where they operated the cybersex den.