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Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Ocampo: Sex video scandal, who's next victim?
By Tek Ocampo
Newsroom
FOR the past few weeks, Davao was shocked with rumors about a certain police officer assigned with the Davao City Police Office allegedly involved in a sex video scandal together with a married woman believed to be a wife of a junior military officer.
For quite sometime, the sex video scandal was confined within small groups who wanted to take a glimpse of what soon was to become the most sought after pornographic VCD on the sidewalk stalls of Davao.
It was not long when the rumors made its way through the airwaves and several local dailies in Davao. GMA news was able to receive a copy of the video clip in jpeg format. We tried to get the statement from the wife of the Philippine National Police (PNP) officer who also happens to be an officer of the PNP but she decided not to be interviewed. We also tried to interview the subject but he also declined. After thorough discussion among our correspondents and news officers whether to air the story or not, Testigo decided not to touch it.
But as broadcast journalist, I had to talk about the story on my daily radio program with DXGM Super Radyo because it somehow involves a police officer. But I tried not to discuss much on the details because we might be censored by the NTC. The contents of the video are too explicit to be the subject of talk on air. We have rules in the code of ethics to observe, aside from our obligation to protect the good name and honor of families dragged into the scandal.
Sex video scandals are not a rarity nowadays. They'd be become rampant in the Internet since the advent of cellular phones with video recording capability. The Davao City Police scandal looks like kids stuff compared to the ones available in the Internet.
A person possessing this high-tech phone is prone to commit such immoral act. One sees sex video clips of celebrities, high school and college students, government officials, prominent private persons and nameless individuals over various sites in the web.
With technology, one could not be too careful nowadays. All of us are potential victims of shadowy characters who have no qualms about violating people's right to privacy. Wireless spy cameras placed inside toilets, motels and other supposedly very private places, are being used by unscrupulous people so they can record events that should remain private. And not to mention they are cheap to acquire.
Today, it's the sex video scandal involving a police officer. Tomorrow, it could be a councilor, a mayor, a banker, an employee, or you! It's clear that nobody's safe anymore, unless the authorities can devise ways to catch and throw these buffoons to jail. Yes, it's a complex issue, but somebody has to start somewhere to stop it.
Dirty beaches are easy to solve. Beach owners need only to see to it that they clean it and insure that customers minimize throwing of trash anywhere. But little can be done by the owners if the waters off these beaches are the ones that are polluted because usually the sources of the pollution are somewhere else and may be beyond the control of beach owners.
This is particularly true with beach resorts, which are made the receptacles of effluents from factories and solid and water wastes from dirty rivers and other waterways. It takes a government with political will to solve the problem with beach owners doing only a supporting role. It's government -- local or national -- that has clout and police powers, that's why.
For Bisaya stories from Davao. Click here. (April 12, 2006 issue)
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