NBI arrests voyeur preying on U-Belt coeds

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has warned female students in the University Belt to be more careful after it arrested recently a man who had posted on a pornographic site various videos showing the underwear of women in skirts which he took without their knowledge.

Head Agent Ronald Aguto of the NBI’s Cybercrime Division said that Sonny Pacursa, 27, was arrested after the students of a top university in the U-Belt area filed a complaint against him. Recovered from him were two memory cards and a cell phone. He now faces charges of voyeurism and child abuse.

Aguto added that Pacursa, who claimed to be a former pharmacy student of the University of Sto. Tomas, had uploaded 76 videos which he took using his cell phone camera on the pornographic site.

Officer on case agent Reonel Balgos said that before his arrest, Pacursa was placed under surveillance for months after a student filed a complaint against him.

He added that NBI agents who monitored the suspect’s movements confirmed that he often hung out in the vicinity of the school to look for potential victims, some of whom were bank tellers.

Balgos said that in one of the surveillance videos they took of the suspect in a 24-hour store in the U-Belt area, they learned that his modus operandi was to stand behind his target and position his bag which contained his cell phone beneath her skirt.

Pacursa told the NBI that he took the videos upon the instigation of friends he made on the porn website.  The NBI, however, believed that he was paid for every video he uploaded.

According to the suspect, he did not know that his actions were wrong since he did not physically harm his victims. He stressed, however, that he was sorry for what he had done.  Karl Angelica Ocampo and Jaries Villavicencio