{"id":50108,"date":"2015-05-21T22:16:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T14:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=50108"},"modified":"2015-05-22T01:35:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T17:35:19","slug":"alleged-recruiter-says-veloso-didnt-know-she-was-carrying-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/21\/alleged-recruiter-says-veloso-didnt-know-she-was-carrying-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged recruiter says Veloso didn&#8217;t know she was carrying drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_48183\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48183\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mary-jane-veloso.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48183\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mary-jane-veloso-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Jane Veloso and her two children (screengrab from Jatamari TV footage)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mary-jane-veloso-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mary-jane-veloso.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Jane Veloso and her two children (screengrab from Jatamari TV footage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Mary Jane Veloso&#8217;s alleged recruiter said Veloso did not know that she was carrying drugs in her luggage in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe did not know she was carrying illegal drugs,\u201d alleged recruiter,\u00a0Ma. Cristina Sergio said.<\/p>\n<p>Veloso was earlier scheduled for execution but was given a reprieve following \u00a0the arrest of Sergio who claimed that she was Veloso&#8217;s recruiter.<\/p>\n<p>Sergio recently filed her 31-page counter affidavit during the preliminary investigation on the charges filed against her.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged recruiter and her live-in partner, Julius Lacanilao, are now facing human trafficking and illegal recruitment charges.<\/p>\n<p>In her counter affidavit, Sergio said that she believe Veloso was innocent of drug trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was victimized and taken advantage of due to her being weak-willed, her great desperation to find a job and her trusting nature. We join the authorities in pressing for the arrest and prosecution of those who victimized her, but not us who had nothing to do about it,\u201d Sergio said.<\/p>\n<p>Veloso&#8217;s family, meanwhile, believes that Sergio&#8217;s statement will help clear out her name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will help Mary Jane very much. It\u2019s the truth; we\u2019re all here because we want the truth to come out,\u201dCelia, Veloso\u2019s mother said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Mary Jane Veloso&#8217;s alleged recruiter said Veloso did not know that she was carrying drugs in her luggage &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":48183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","category-uncategorized","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}