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2 US sex crime convicts barred from entering PH

June 21, 2024 People's Tonight 166 views

IMMIGRATION officers have recently barred two American convicts from entering the country.

Convicted of sexual crimes, Danny Rodriguez, 52, was intercepted at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 1 in Pasay City on June 17; while Kenneth Allen Roedell, 72, was denied entry at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA) on June 10, BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco said.

“As a consequence of their exclusion they have been placed in our immigration blacklist and perpetually banned from re-entering the Philippines for being undesirable aliens,” Tansingco said.

He added that the two pedophiles were registered sex offenders (RSOs) who, under the Philippine immigration act, are deemed excludable aliens due to their conviction for crimes involving moral turpitude.

Rodriguez was convicted in 2003 on two counts of sexual assault in the second and third degrees wherein the victims were less than 14 years of age.

On the other hand, Roedell was convicted in 2004 for sexually molesting and engaging in lewd and lascivious acts against a 12-year-old victim.

Tansingco said the interception of the two pedophiles became possible due to a decades-long cooperative arrangement between the US and Philippine governments wherein the former committed to providing the latter advance notice about traveling sex offenders.

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