DIRECT EXAMINATION MINOR WITH CROSS

1. Q: Please state your name and other personal circumstances for the record.
A: I, Jocelyn Azucena, 17 years old, Filipino and residing in Ballesteros, Cagayan.

2. Q: What is your work?

A: I work at a bar.

3. Q: You are a minor, right?

A: Yes, I am.
ATTY NOGUERRA: attached herein is the birth certificates of the minors as Annex J.

4. Q: Did you go to school? I mean back home? (palitan yung tanong) Suggestion: What did
you finish?
A: I graduated elementary school. I had to stop because I had to help earn money for our
families.

5. Q: What did you do for work back then?

A: I mostly sold snacks, did the laundry and took care of other people’s kids; anything to earn
money, really.

6. Q: How did you end up here in Tuguegarao City?

A: My parents tried to look for work here and they took us with them.

7. Q: You said you work at a bar. What is the name of that bar?
A: Moonlight Bar
Cross: You said in your JA Ms. Witness that you will work for anything just to earn money, did
you work to any other bars around Macapagal Avenue? Have you been working to any bars
priors to Grace?
What are your arrangements?
You said a while ago that Grace is your boss, do you have anything to prove that aside from
your contention?
Have you been engaging in any work like this before?
Regardless if you are working for Grace, you will still engage in that activity.
Every time that you are entertaining costumers, are you required to engage in sexual activities?
Would you agree with me that Grace only allowed you accompany customers and it will depend
on your agreement with the customer if you will engage in any sexual activities?

8. Q: Who offered you this job?

A: Ms. Grace Tendenillla

9. Q: Do you know of a certain Grace Tendenilla? (ibahin tanong) pwedeng tanggalin

A: Yes, I do.

10. Q: How do you know her?

A1: I work for her. Aside from the fact that I work for her. She previously offered work for the
other ladies in our community.
Cross: How much did she give you for your services?

11. Q: And what do you exactly do when you say you “work” for her
A: I serve tables and entertain customers at her bar.

12. Q: Explain to me how you “entertain” customers.

A: I usually stay by their tables and serve as company whenever they eat and drink in the
Moonlight Bar.
13. Q: Do you have to do anything sexual whenever you “entertain” customers?
A: Yes, I do.

14. Q: How often do you need to do these sexual acts for the customers?
A: Most nights. That’s usually how my nights ended whenever I work; with the customer taking
us out to entertain them in a sexual way. Sometimes I dance in front of them and sometimes
we’re having sexual intercourse.

15. Q: Does the customer pay you for these sexual favors?
A: Well, yes. They pay Ms. Grace, and then she splits the money with us the next morning.

16. Q: Does Ms. Tendenilla know that this is happening?

A: Yes she does. She takes care of all the talking and negotiation with the customers. We just
have to work.

17. Q: Does Ms. Tendenilla expect everyone who works for to her do these sexual acts?
A: No, Benj Parallac, a waiter, only waits the table but I think that’s because he’s a man. Most
ladies she employs usually wait the tables and do the other work as well.

18. Q: So there are other women?

A: Yes. There are 5 of us but the three other women were not around that night because they
were offered to the other customers, and they were brought at the back room.
Cross: can you describe what is this back room and where is it located?

19. Q: How long have you been doing this for her?
A: Close to a year.

20. Q: Are you aware that your “other” work is illegal? Especially because you are minors?
A: Yes, I do, but what can you do. We’d starve if we stopped.

21. Q: Ok. You were one of the ladies present during the entrapment operation, correct?
A: Yes.

22. Q: Can you tell me about that night? From the moment your work started up until the
arrest.
A: Ok. That was a slow night if I recall, slow week really. We haven’t had much business in a
while and there were barely any costumers present. I thought we wouldn’t earn anything extra
until two men came in looking like they’d spend money. Ms. Grace told us to freshen up in the
backroom and get ourselves ready. She told us she’d make sure to get us business tonight. We
did what she told us and about an hour since the men arrived, Benj Parallac told us “It’s
showtime.”. We go out and greet them and after they paid, we sat by their table to work. I
notice the customer call someone on the phone and not long after police officers came in. They
arrested Ms. Grace. I thought they are going to arrest us too but other people identifying
themselves as DSWD employees took us into their vehicle and told us that they’d keep us safe.
Cross: What made you say that the two men looked like they will spend money? How would
you know that these customers will spend money?
What did Andres and Jose been doing in the bar?
Have you seen them ordered food?
What are their orders?
Why did it take you an hour to freshen and go out? (Speculative)
Contrary to your Answer in Question Number 11 that you serve food on the tables when you
don’t need to entertain customers, why are you not serving food at that time?
You said you were working for Grace, right?
If you really are working for Grace, where were you when there are customers?
23. Q: Did you see unusual amount of force while conducting the arrest for example? Did
the police tell her that “She has the right to remain silent and all that?
A: I don’t know about the force. I assume that’s how all arrests go. As for the right to remain
silent, the police officers did. They said a lot more, but I can’t remember it all.
24. Q: Did you know what happened to Ms. Tendenilla after that?
A: The people from DSWD told us they will bring her to the nearest police station.

25. Q: What about you, where did the people from DSWD take you?
A: They took me to a place where the minors they are taking care of usually stays. I spent the
night there and the next morning they asked me to tell them all about my experiences and how
I got here and told me they would keep me safe and wouldn’t let this happen again.

26. Q: That concludes the night, I assume?

A: Yes it does.

27. Q: Is there anything you want to add to you foregoing statements?

A: None that I can think of at the moment. (Irrelevant)