BACOLOD CITY, Philippines – Suspected dealers of pirated DVDs (digital video discs) snatched a daughter of a radio broadcaster here last Sunday afternoon and forced her to admit that she was an informant of the Optical Media Board (OMB).
But Josephine Alejandrino-Sosa, 37, managed to escape from her kidnappers and returned home last Thursday, according to her father, broadcaster Rey Alejandrino.
Alejandrino said her daughter was seized and blindfolded by three men on board a black van last Sunday afternoon and was brought to an undisclosed place in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental where she was beaten up, starved and forced to admit that she was an OMB informant.
Upon her escape, Alejandrino’s daughter sought help from Dumaguete folk for clothes and her transport fare back to this city.
Her sister Aiza said they brought her to a hospital as she was suffering from mental shock as a result of the incident.
Last July 10-11, pirated DVDs and VCDs (video compact discs) worth about P11.9 million were confiscated in Negros Occidental by OMB personnel and intelligence agents of the regional police.
The raids were conducted in the cities of Bacolod, Victorias and Silay, according to Sergio Valdez, deputy head of the OMB Enforcement Division.
Senior Superintendent Edgardo Ordaniel, acting Bacolod police chief, said they are now probing the kidnapping.