Farmers' daughters are Moonie targets

By Bobby Timonera

MANILA - The Moonies are combing the Philippine countryside in search of farmers' daughters to lure into their trap.

One such innocent, Carlita, who is in her 20s, was lucky to get away.

Carlita, her face covered with a towel, occasionally lapsed into tears and silence as she told reporters of her ordeal. This is her story.

Sometime in November, the sect's recruiters arrived at Carlita's village in Nueva Ecija and asked the women if they would be interested in marrying Koreans.

Photographs of Korean men were passed around.

"OK, we'll see if we get to like them," the women said.

They were told to attend a seminar at the sect's church in Cabanatuan City. It was supposedly about the "ideal family."

Later, they were asked to wear nice clothing, were made up, and photographed. Then they were told that should authorities ask them about their marriage plans, they should answer that they have been writing to and talking with the Korean men over the phone for some time.

Of the four women recruited, only three were matched with Koreans. One was apparently dropped.

One day the women were invited to go to the church's office in Manila in the company of Kroean men. Along the way, the Koreans embraced them.

Suddenly afraid, Carlita and and another woman alighted from the vehicle near the Nepa Q-Mart market along Edsa in Quezon City. Carlita being a daughter of one of the peasant leaders of the Demokratikong Kilusang Magbu-bukid ng Pilipinas, the other woman rushed to the DKMP office to report the incident.

But their friend who was left behind was brought to the Unification Church's headquarters at 32 Samar Ave. in Quezon City.

It was this woman who told peasant leader Jaime Tadeo of the DKMP that a Caucasian, whose nationality she did not know, asked the Koreans to pay him $2,000.

It was not known if the amount was payment for the recruitment job. But it jibed with a report from the Philippine Embassy in Seoul that the Moonies usually demand $2,000 from Koreans who wanted to have "housemaids and sex partners."

The transaction appears to be part of the sect's fund-raising campaign.

Tadeo, along with Carlita, went to the Bureau of Immigration office in Intramuros to seek its help in closing the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity in Cabanatuan City.

"We believe they are just using their church as a front for illegal recruitment," Tadeo said. INQUIRER

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