7 nabbed in cybersex den raid

LUCENA CITY—Police arrested seven people in a house that was turned into a cybersex den in Barangay Mayao Crossing here on Wednesday.

Senior Supt. Rhoderick Armamento, Quezon provincial police director, said the suspects, led by their operator, John Lloyd Carlos, 32, were performing sexual acts in front of web cameras when operatives from the Philippine National Police Anti-Cybercrime Group raided a two-story house in Saint Jude Village II at 1 a.m.

“The bedroom was made to look like a five-star hotel [suite] to lure their clients,” Armamento said.

Authorities, armed with a search warrant, seized two desktop computers and several sex toys that the suspects used in their online shows for foreign customers, mostly from Europe and Asia.

Police also recovered passports, mobile phones, bank passbooks, credit cards and wigs from the suspects, who are residents of Antipolo City in Rizal province and Metro Manila.

Carlos, known here as “Madam J-Lo,” said he started as a cybersex worker in 2011. He said he was enticed to start his own cybersex operation two years ago because he earned easily.

“We cater to international clients, most of them gay men. They all knew we’re gays,” Carlos said.

He said he earned an average of P30,000 a month, with his clients paying through money remittance centers. —DELFIN T. MALLARI JR.