DAVAO CITY –The Bureau of Immigration (BI) barred three Americans convicted of pedophilia from entering the country.
Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco in a statement said two alleged pedophiles were intercepted at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) while the other one arrived at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA).
Tansingco said all three were excluded and boarded on the next available flight to their port of origin.
The Commissioner said that on April 25, David Earl Uland, 81, arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1 aboard a Eva Air flight from Taipei but the Immigration personnel found Uland was reportedly convicted by a US court in 1999 for molesting a minor.
On May 1, another American named Peter John Cruz, 64 was denied entry at the NAIA Terminal 3 after he arrived via a United Airlines flight from Guam.
Cruz was twice convicted in November 1992 by a court in Guam on charges of criminal sexual misconduct in the first and second degrees wherein his victim was a 14-year-old girl.
While the 56-year-old Clarence Paul Nique was barred in Mactan Cebu Airport upon his arrival from Taipei via an Eva Air flight on May 3.
In 2014, a court in Michigan allegedly convicted Nique on the charge of criminal sexual conduct in the second degree wherein the victim is a seven-year-old child.
Under the Philippine Immigration Act, aliens convicted of crimes involving moral turpitude are subject to immediate exclusion upon arrival in any of the country’s ports of entry.
As a consequence of their exclusion, the three Americans were placed in the immigration blacklist and perpetually banned from entering the Philippines.
