PNP: He stays in Camp Crame

BY ASHZEL HACHERO and VICTOR REYES

A Quezon City court has ordered the transfer in custody of Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) founder Apollo Quiboloy and four of his co-accused from the PNP Custodial Center in Camp Crame to the Quezon City jail.

Quiboloy and his co-accused are facing charges for violation of RA 7610, or the Special Protection of Children against Abuse, Exploitation, and Discrimination Act, before the Quezon City RTC Branch 106, which has issued an order for their arrest.

Child abuse is a bailable offense.

In a one-page order dated September 9, Presiding Judge Noel Parel tasked the chief of the PNP Headquarters Support Service to “transfer and commit’ Quiboloy and Cresente Canada to the new city jail in Payatas Road in Barangay Bagong Silangan.

Quiboloy’s three female co-accused – Ingrid Canada, Sylvia Cemanes and Jackielyn Roy – were ordered to be transferred to the Quezon City Jail – female dormitory in Camp Karingal, the headquarters of the Quezon City Police District.

The court said Quiboloy and his co-accused should be “transferred immediately” upon receipt by the PNP of the order.

The court also directed the jail wardens of the two Quezon City jail facilities to present Quiboloy and the other accused before its sala on September 13, 2024 at 8:30 a.m. for their arraignment and pre-trial via video conference hearing.

But PNP spokesperson Col. Jean Fajardo, in a press briefing, said Quiboloy and his subordinates will remain under police custody and will continue to be detained at Camp Crame, citing a commitment order from a Pasig trial court where a separate complaint of qualified human trafficking has also been filed against the accused.

Fajardo did not answer questions when the Pasig City court issued the commitment order.

Fajardo said the PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) is due to submit a pleading before the Quezon City court to inform it about the commitment order issued by the Pasig court.

“It will inform the (QC) court that the RTC (of) Pasig issued an order directing the PNP to retain the custody of these individuals. Their cases before (the) Pasig (court) are non bailable,” she said,