4 American sex offenders refused entry to PH
FOUR more foreign sex offenders from the US were barred from entering the country over the last few days, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said.
In a statement, Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco said the four Americans were denied at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) and they were immediately turned back on the next available flights to their ports of origin.
“We have been turning them away one after the other, yet they keep on coming here. But we will not relent because it is our duty in the BI to prevent the Philippines from being a hub of sex tourism,” the BI chief stressed.
Herbert Nelson Price, 63, who was denied entry at the NAIA Terminal 1. He was convicted by a court in Wisconsin for sexual battery wherein the victim is a 21-year-old woman.
Also on Feb. 7, Thomas Dewey Wise, 68, was intercepted at the NAIA-Terminal 3 upon his arrival via a Cathay Pacific flight from Hongkong. He was convicted in 1997 for indecent liberties or committing lewd or immoral acts on a child who is under 16 years of age.
On Feb. 8, BI officers at the NAIA Terminal 1 excluded Keith Knight Bonzon, 65, who arrived aboard a Korean Airlines flight from Incheon, South Korea. He was convicted by a US court for sexually assaulting a 23-year-old woman after intruding into her home.
On February 10, John Kenneth Wilsher, 60 was excluded after also arriving from Incheon on board a Korean Airlines flight. He was convicted in 1988 of criminal sexual conduct in the 1st degree in the state of Michigan.
