How did they escape?

EDITORIAL

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The story has faded from the headlines, but Filipinos would still want to know how Alice Guo and her purported siblings Shiela and Wesley managed to flee the country in July last year.

Finding out how the Guos escaped could expose the weaknesses that allowed it to happen, and identify and hold accountable those who helped them escape.

At a hearing of the Senate committee on justice and human rights yesterday, Sen. Risa Hontiveros raised a valid point: seven months after the three escaped, the government still has not validated Alice Guo's story, as told to the Senate on Sept. 9 last year.