French tourist met girl victims on Facebook

He met the girls on Facebook.

When he checked into a hotel in Cebu City, he would prod the children to accompany him there.

Separate complaints of human traficking and violation of the anti-Child Abuse Law were filed yesterday with the prosecutor’s office against French national Alexander Horst Le Fur.

Lawyer Jo-Ann Suarez-Pabriaga of the Children’s Legal Bureau (CLB) who worked with the police to arrest Le Fur, said the suspect would invite his young victims through the social networking  site Facebook.

She said the girls would be brought to a mall first before they were taken to his  room in Tune Hotel in Archbishop Reyes Avenue.

Le Fur, who was arrested on Saturday afternoon was brought for inquest proceedings in the Cebu City Prosecutors’ Office yesterday.

He was assisted by lawyer Filmore Gomos.

Le Fur chose to undergo a preliminary investigation so he could  submit his counter-affidavit and refute the allegations against him.

Assistant City Prosecutor Ana Lou Fernandez-Cavada was assigned to handle the case.

Le Fur was described as a senior  manager of the Singapore-based Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Accenture and an IT expert.

Police are still trying to access the encrypted files of his laptop computer.

Two girls aged 14 and 19  were found in Le Fur’s hotel room when police barged in last Saturday.

They were turned over to the custody of social workers.

Meanwhile, the Canadian national facing charges for violation of Republic Act 7610 or the special law on child abuse holds a retirement visa issued by Philippine Retirement Authority (PRA).

The Special Resident Retiree’s Visa (SRRV) of Danny Dwayne Kevol is a multiple entry visa to the country and means that he came in the Philippines as an investor, said alien control officer Casimiro Madaranga III of the Bureau of Immigration. Kevol last arrived in the country on March 31, 2013.

He was arrested last Friday by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). Kevol was in his sedan with a 15-year-old girl, who told authorities later that she met Kevol  in a mall in Mandaue City and was taken to his condominium where she was paid to have sex.

Both Kevol and Le Fur, who arrived as a tourist, had no previous derrogatory records in their country of origin, said Madarang, based on a check of the BI’s database./ Reporter Ador Vincent Mayol and Jucell Cuyos