Malacañang on women's rights group criticism of President Duterte’s touching a maid when

he was a high school student

On women's rights group criticism of President Duterte’s touching a maid when he was a high
school student

It is unfortunate that in its zeal to promote its advocacy on the protection of women's rights as
well as in its obsession to put the President in a bad light, the women's rights group has lost the
ability of discerning a reality from a rebuke on the hypocrisy of the priests who molested him
and his classmates when they were high school students.

In his inimitable allegorical style of of dramatizing the sexual abuse the President suffered when
he was a minor, he has made up a laughable anecdote to dramatize the fact of sexual abuse
that was inflicted on him and his fellow students when they were in high school.

He purposely added and spliced the story with vulgarity to characterize the behavior of the
priest who insisted to hear more sins during their confessions when there were none.

In many instances PRRD has asked the public to research on the internet the late Jesuit priest
Fr. Mark Falvey.

The latter groped and pricked his and other Ateneo students' balls during sessions in the
confession box. The Jesuit order paid sixteen (16) million dollars settlement on complaints of
sexual abuse filed against him.

The President has evolved an unorthodox and mischievous method of exposing and criticizing
the hypocritical practices of those men in religious cloak. While the telling of the concocted
story triggers laughter on his audience, the message that the President intends to convey is not
lost on his listeners.

The President will not discard his shocking and amusing out of the box utterances that have
been his political signature, which has endeared him to the masses, and which he finds
effective in transmitting to the nation his political and social dogmas.

Salvador S. Panelo
Chief Presidential Legal Counsel
& Presidential Spokesperson