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Wednesday, December 10, 2003
Anti-immorality body cracks down on freelance prostitutes
By Christine Mae A. Pelayo
THE Anti-Immorality Task Force recently launched Oplan Red Butterfly, a campaign plan targeting freelance commercial sex workers (CSWs) in Bacolod City.
The task force warned Bacolodnons that free-lance CSWs are more prone to having Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) because they do not undergo regular smearing at the City Health Office (CHO).
The City Government, on the other hand, disclosed it will impose penalty to CSWs caught thrice without pink cards to signify that they are not carriers of STD.
Lawyer Vicente Sabornay, city legal officer, said that they will also file a case for vagrancy against any CSW caught violating the City's campaign against immorality.
This came after 69 CSWs, including eight minors, were rounded up last Thursday evening when found operating without pink cards by joint operatives of the CHO, City Mayor's Office, Public Information Office, National Bureau of Investigation and the Bacolod City Police Office, Women's Desk, Department of Social Services and Development (DSSD), Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and Action Agad in areas and nightspots in Shopping Center, Barangay Banago, Barangay Sum-ag, Barangay Villamonte and Goldenfield Commercial Complex.
One of the 69 CSWs was found positive of gonorrhea while 19 were found with non-gonococcal infection.
Executive Assistant XZ Sofia Quintilla, head of Anti-Immorality Task Force, said they are eyeing the closure of one of the six nightspots in Bacolod City for employing a minor.
The nightspots are Superstar, Rico II, Wildcat, Raingate, Ginmar and Cat's Eye. "We are processing the documents for the closure order of Superstar because we found out that one of the minors, a 16-year-old CSW being employed in their establishment, has been caught twice already," said Quintilla.
(December 9, 2003 issue)
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