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    People V Jeffrey Hirang

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    Hirang was charged with qualified trafficking in persons for intending to sell four minor victims to Korean customers for sexual activities. He told the victims they would receive money after meeting Hirang's Korean friends. At the meeting, Hirang introduced the girls and money was exchanged. The court found Hirang guilty because he recruited and transported four minors for sexual exploitation, taking advantage of their vulnerability through promises of money and fun. This satisfied the elements of qualified trafficking under the law as it involved minors and was on a large scale against multiple victims.

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    People V Jeffrey Hirang

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    Hirang was charged with qualified trafficking in persons for intending to sell four minor victims to Korean customers for sexual activities. He told the victims they would receive money after meeting Hirang's Korean friends. At the meeting, Hirang introduced the girls and money was exchanged. The court found Hirang guilty because he recruited and transported four minors for sexual exploitation, taking advantage of their vulnerability through promises of money and fun. This satisfied the elements of qualified trafficking under the law as it involved minors and was on a large scale against multiple victims.

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    Hirang was charged with qualified trafficking in persons for intending to sell four minor victims to Korean customers for sexual activities. He told the victims they would receive money after meeting Hirang's Korean friends. At the meeting, Hirang introduced the girls and money was exchanged. The court found Hirang guilty because he recruited and transported four minors for sexual exploitation, taking advantage of their vulnerability through promises of money and fun. This satisfied the elements of qualified trafficking under the law as it involved minors and was on a large scale against multiple victims.

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    People V Jeffrey Hirang

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    Hirang was charged with qualified trafficking in persons for intending to sell four minor victims to Korean customers for sexual activities. He told the victims they would receive money after meeting Hirang's Korean friends. At the meeting, Hirang introduced the girls and money was exchanged. The court found Hirang guilty because he recruited and transported four minors for sexual exploitation, taking advantage of their vulnerability through promises of money and fun. This satisfied the elements of qualified trafficking under the law as it involved minors and was on a large scale against multiple victims.

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    People v Jeffrey Hirang

    G.R. No. 223528, January 11, 2017


    THIRD DIVISION (Reyes, J.)
    [Note: Crime under SPL; With Criminal Procedure – re: Instigation and Entrapment]

    DOCTRINE: There is qualified trafficking in persons under R.A. No. 9208 when there is
    recruitment and transportation of minors for sexual activities or when it is committed in large
    scale (against three or more persons).

    FACTS:

    Jeffrey Hirang was charged with the crime of qualified trafficking in persons. Hirang
    intended to sell his four victims, all minors, to his Korean customers for sexual activities. To
    induce his victims to come along with him, Hirang told them that they would receive ₱5,000.00
    after a "gimik" with his Korean friends. He and his victims proceeded to meet with the Koreans
    at a Chowking restaurant. Hirang instructed the girls to tell the Koreans that they were 16 years
    of age, as this was their customers' preference. When their group arrived at Chowking, Hirang
    talked to a Korean and then introduced the girls to him. The Korean handed money to Hirang.
    The latter was subsequently arrested. He denied dealing with sexual trade.

    ISSUE:

    Should Hirang be convicted with the crime of qualified trafficking in persons?

    RULING:

    Yes, Hirang should be convicted with the crime of qualified trafficking in persons under
    R.A. No. 9208. The basic elements of trafficking in persons, as derived from Section 3, are:

    (1) The act of recruitment, transportation, transfer or harbouring, or receipt of persons with
    or without the victim's consent or knowledge, within or across national borders;

    (2) The means used which include threat or use of force, or other forms of coercion,
    abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or of position, taking advantage of the
    vulnerability of the person, or, the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve
    the consent of a person having control over another; and

    (3) The purpose of trafficking is exploitation which includes exploitation or the prostitution
    of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery, servitude
    or the removal or sale of organs.

    Under Section 6, the crime becomes qualified when the trafficked person is a child or
    when committed in a large scale, that is, against three or more persons.

    In this case, there is a recruitment and transportation of four minors for sexual activities
    and exploitation, with Hirang taking advantage of their vulnerability through the guarantee of a
    good time and financial gain. The crime was committed in a large scale as there were four victims
    and all of them were under 18 years of age. Hirang was convicted.

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