BI prepares deportation proceedings vs American pastor accused of child abuse

The Bureau of Immigration (BI) will conduct deportation proceedings against an American pastor who was arrested for alleged abuse of 160 children in Pampanga.

On August 13, authorities arrested the pastor for allegedly physically abusing the children in a facility run by a social welfare and development agency in Mexico, Pampanga.

He reportedly deprived them of food, chained them, or locked them inside rooms.

“This kind of depravity has no place in our country. We will make sure this individual is expelled from the Philippines after facing his cases here so he may never prey on our children again,” said BI Commissioner Joel Anthony Viado. —Jiselle Anne Casucian/VBL, GMA Integrated News