Amid the continuous encouragement of the Philippine National Police (PNP) for all its personnel to promote the aggressive campaign in stopping violence against women, one of its senior officers appears to have either ignored, or did not receive the memo.

A police colonel is now facing a string of criminal charges for allegedly taking videos of his intimate moments with a married woman without her consent, and using them to force her to continue their illicit relationship.

The worst part was that one of those sex videos ended up in the messaging app of the married woman’s minor daughter, while a screen grab of that video was sent to her husband. 

That became the last straw for the married woman as she filed several cases against the 52-year old police colonel that include violations of Republic Act (RA) 9262, or the Anti-Violence Against Women and Children Law, and RA 9995, or the Anti-Photo and Video Voyeurism Act.

In the complaint she filed before the Quezon City Prosecutor's Office, the victim said she met the police colonel when he ordered a nameplate sometime in December 2020 through a messaging app. 

During that time, the victim said she was having a marital problem and the police colonel became both her confidant and counselor on how to deal with it. 

The exchange of messages led to business partnership, and later blossomed into an extramarital affair. 

During their first intimate moment, the victim said that she noticed that the police colonel was taking a video using his smart phone and when she demanded that the video be deleted, the police official got mad and promised that he would delete it. 

The victim said that she repeatedly tried to end their relationship starting 2021 but the police colonel would allegedly threaten her that he would send the video to her husband. 

This, he said, forced her to continue their relationship and led to more videos without her consent. 

The victim added that such a threat also forced her to give in to the police colonel’s demand for a loan of a huge sum of money.

The big trouble, she said, started in January this year when she was confronted by a Facebook user who identified herself as the wife of the police colonel.

It was the same Facebook account, she said, that sent the sex video to her minor daughter and a screengrab to her husband’s messaging app.

The leak of the sex video, according to the victim, led to depression and seriously affected her family. But she said she and her husband talked it over and later decided to pursue criminal cases against the police official. 

Also included in the charge sheet was the Facebook account owner who sent the sex video.